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Langlitz Leather Motorcycle Riding Jacket and Pants For Sale


Langlitz Leather Motorcycle Riding Jacket and Pants
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Langlitz Leather Motorcycle Riding Jacket and Pants:
$675.00

For sale is the set of brown steer hide leathers Ross Langlitz cut for me back in 1976. I felt like Lee Marvin playing Kid Shelleen in the movie, “Cat Ballou”. As he took the measurements, he put a tiny spirit level on my shoulder, looked closely at it and wrote something down. When asked, he told me “it tells me where the arm hole comes out”. At this point I truly appreciated what went into making a bespoke set of clothing. He also suggested the long knee pads as he said they would keep my legs warmer. I added shoulder and elbow pads to the Cascade jacket and a second inside pocket on the right. The left one still has my name and city typed on the cloth inside.When I came back to pick up the set, I noticed the jacket was over my knuckles when I tried it on. Mr. Langlitz was fitting another customer so I leaned over the counter to tell the woman there that “perhaps he made a mistake” in the measurements. Yes, I had the temerity to suggest such a thing in my callow youth. She leaned toward me over the counter as if to share the confidentiality I wanted and patted me on the arm, “Don’t worry about that”, she said quietly with a smile, “the wrinkles in the elbows will take that right up”. And, of course, they did. She also sternly warned me about failing to lower the zipper before unfastening the waistband snaps on the pants. Yes, the zipper was replaced. Once. I suggest you strictly heed this advice.I had them repaired when I went down a year and a half later and scuffed the left side of the jacket and partially dislodged the left shoulder pad. I suffered with my broken collar bone and broken ribs more than the jacket did. You’ll have to search well to find the marks from the accident on the jacket. As the years passed I had them altered to fit my body’s “evolution”. You need to be about 6’ tall and weigh around 240lbs. to fit the way they’ve been altered. The waist is around 40” now on the pants and you should be thick front to back through the upper torso rather than wide and lean for the jacket to fit well. I also had the factory repair the tattered lining at the jacket cuffs some time ago so there\'s leather at the inside of the sleeves. The lining is perfect throughout the pants as is their full length zippers. I had the pants made to fit over my jeans.Incidentally, the photographs highlight the difference in the color of the leather from the original to the alterations much more than you can see with the naked eye. Of course, at this price you could always have them customized for you.I can’t disguise I’m writing this as a good-by to a treasured possession from my younger years as much as describing them to you, the prospective buyer. I’ll miss ‘em but I’m getting to the end of my street riding days and I prefer lighter, if not prestigious garments: the set weighs in at 22 lbs. it’s armor for the road and it’s served me well. I’ll include the last of several containers of Langlitz dressing I’ve used up over the years.Here’s some other details, jacket first:Shoulder seam to end of sleeve: 25 3/4”Top of collar to bottom of jacket: 28”Across chest measured from seam to seam under the arms: 23 1/2”Pants: Inseam: 31 1/2”Waistband measured lying flat: 20 3/4”Please, Please, Please ask questions BEFORE buying. The shipping on an item like this is bad enough in one direction w/o compounding the error with the need for a return!


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