VP said:If you're in England go meet Wested personally and have the same guy measure you who measured Harrison Ford in 1980.
VP said:
eazybox said:Wested sent me D rings with my last jacket; it was supposed to come with sliders that hold the side straps in place more securely. I read a post by Peter offering to replace them at no charge, and I requested the replacements.
Trouble was, they sent me only one slider. In response to my second email about this, they promised to resend the correct number of sliders (4).
Today, I got another envelope from Wested-- again, with only ONE slider in it.
Taken together with the many other complaints I've read about their shoddy service, along with my own past experiences, they've finally convinced me never to order anything else from them again. As I said on another forum, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
CAVEAT EMPTOR (let the buyer beware).
Jack
NonStop said:I see. Well, I think I will go on up there and see what it is like,
eazybox said:It might be a good idea to check out indygear.com before you go, if you haven't already done that, so that you will know exactly what you want. They'll have a new jacket section up soon, which describes in detail the entire history of the jacket and all the details of its design and the differences between each movie version, etc. Their research has cleared up a lot of misconceptions. The revised material should be up sometime this week, followed soon by a revised fedora section.
Jack
NonStop said:Cheers for the info. Wested seem very nice, as does Todd, I have emailed them both. It will be hard to make up my mind. From what Tod said, ther are no official jackets as such:
There is no "official" version. Indyjacket.com is run by the guy who made SOME of the film jackets 27 years ago, but they are notsanctioned by LucasFilm in any way. Since there were many unique jackets used in the film, you have to pick which one you want to be identical to. I have made mineidentical to what is seen on screen in the majority of the close-up hero scenes in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Of course, it is myinterpretation since I have not had that jacket in my hands to examine directly. But I have labored to capture the detail and nuanceseen on screen. Most people find it to be identical to what they see, too.