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Everyday I speak to potential buyers of leather jackets. The two most common inquiries by buyers relate to sizing and whether to buy a vintage jacket or a new one. The answers would seem obvious to both questions, but this is not the case. Firstly sizing is about the most difficult issue when dealing with [...]
Sitting in my office today I spent the morning with my sewing machine mechanic Henry. Henry is a tinkering genius. He immigrated from Poland to South Africa, and then to Canada. Henry is one of the last of of his kind here in Toronto; he can fix a Reece button hole machine!. As Henry puts [...]
Part of the fun of starting this “heritage” project is developing new ideas for leather jackets. I am very committed to having a solid concept behind every single design that I do. A huge part of that philosophy is applying the knowledge and history that I have accumulated into the creation of a jacket. Each [...]
I have spent the last 48 hours trying to put together an order form PDF for Himel Brothers Leather jackets. Happily my procrastination has lead me down the garden path away from PDFs to my secret nerd compulsion for blueprints. I think back to my first set of plans that came in a tube: 20 [...]
The final step in the process for creating my A-1 jacket is the installation of the zippers and/or buttons. This is the most serious part of the process because the jacket is now at its near completion and the most expensive part of the process if there is some kind of error. So here is [...]
