CountLau
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I appreciate the help, you've been really great at communicating the details and the processes you've done to make yours more SA!
The more I look at mine, the more I'm convinced it's just because I'm looking at it in a darker environment, the only way this coat can go from black/dark grey in the film with very little green to very green in some scenes, is that most of the green comes from the colour grading, which seems to be the case. I'm sure with time it'll lighten a bit and settle to the way I want it. Looking at pictures of the movie jacket on display it really does seem to match very well with the same very subtle green cast mostly from the camera. I'm pretty happy with it! It's got some stuff I need to do, but I don't want to rush it. The fact that we're getting into a conversation about such minor things really shows how much effort Jameel has put into this coat. I think it really is the most SA we've seen yet, with very minor tweaks taking it the rest of the way. I feel really lucky to have gotten one for myself.
tweaks will never be obvious to do,imho.Congratulations! That's a great-looking coat and really well put-together.
Jameel will no doubt be able to confirm whether he used the same material as he did on CoutLau's. To my eyes, it looks to be the same.... That's one of the great things about this material. As CountLau has pointed out, much like in the movie, the coat can have a slightly different hue and sheen depending on the light source.
While I agree with CountLau that the sleeve length looks a little long, I think -in terms of coat design itself- there are some issues with the sleeves' width. To my eyes, on BEP/ELS's sleeves are too wide, bulky in appearance. Now, a lot of this boils down to taste of course, but the movie coat's sleeves (and coat in general) has more of a tailored, snug fit. Granted, Ryan Gosling is well-built and he 'fills in' the sleeves (and the coat) nicely, but having said that, I think it's important that the sleeve width also be proportionately 'scaled' to the wearer's build/size (much in the same way that collar should be scaled to each wearer). The scaled 'tailored' fit is something WSL did well on my current coat, IMO.
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(It's worth noting that the above is duck cotton with two layers of barbour wax, which give the coat more drape, weight and character. I realize the laminated twill cotton might not 'behave' the same way.)
Jameel is currently tweaking a laminated coat for me (the last one before his laminated material ran out!) and we're sorting out the details to, overall, achieve that more tailored fit. More to come!
It's your personal touch and needed finish (if you're not skilled enough to do it by yourself) in front of someone who can ,that imo couldn't be done any other way to have the coat made as well as possible on your live fit (for me,I was even afraight to get more other muscles in the future,and wanted never to have a coat shrinking my arms and back just as it happened with the one I had made myself in times when covid and its long-term consequences had dried me up (did not even know that I would get muscle big again).
I listed the ones I did cause understood my pics have been appreciated for overall good-looking style over the closeness with the movie one,but it will be you to decide what else needed.
Reasonably,you will go weathering the fur (as almost everybody does here with every coat purchased from anyone vendor I read).
Maybe you will decide not to fix the shape of the lapels,avoiding to mess with tricks like the ones I did (also hard to explain both here and to a tailor who hasn't seen live),and you will understand if you want to add magnets for keep it opened without the lapels to flutter if you move more than simple walking etc...
What I found essential for me was to have a laminated cotton.
My experience with plasticizer hasn't been that good. Too smelly,too stiff,not so SA if it's done to look for it (Cleopatre,Odicoat and so on,from what I read and see also in other tutorial etc,it seems to me about the same result,not that good).
Ok,if that was duck and slightly less laminated,could be even better,maybe SR cloth (also twill) is colored a little bit closer to Gosling's coat (but not necessarily),about their (supposed,but it's clearly what I found online) acrilic lamination,our coat should better withstand (not too heavy) rain (I had acrilic laminated jackets and was not the same as this one seems at first sight and simple attempts at home). But that cloth (Jameel) for me was better than uncoated (even if I admitted that maybe they're right to say their duck more SA,standing on what seen in some scenes where the coat seems uncoated). I choose what I was looking for practicality overall and SA (also from what I can see with my weird riddick-like eyes...)
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