{"product_id":"ralph-lauren-dark-grey-vintage-cowhide-sheepskin-lammy-pilot-jacket","title":"Ralph Lauren Dark Grey Vintage Cowhide \u0026 Sheepskin Lammy Pilot Jacket","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Ralph Lauren Dark Grey Vintage Cowhide and Sheepskin Pilot Jacket. This is a collector's piece in the most literal sense: a Polo Ralph Lauren pilot jacket purchased in black decades ago and worn long enough that the cowhide has done what genuine leather does when it is lived in rather than preserved, the colour fading naturally from its original black through the years of wearing, creasing and exposure to produce the dark grey it carries today, the patina distributed across the surface in the uneven, unrepeatable pattern that only real time and real use can create. Ralph Lauren has sold patinated leather jackets with artificially applied ageing finishes for years, the distressed surface produced in the factory before the jacket reaches its first owner. What separates this piece from those is precisely what cannot be manufactured: the history is in the leather rather than on it, each fade and crease the record of a specific life rather than the simulation of one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cowhide carries its weight with the authority that this grade of leather has always carried, the jacket substantial in the hand and on the body, the heft a quality that lighter, thinner leathers manufactured for contemporary tastes do not approach. The collar and interior are lined in lambskin shearling, the dense, plush fleece sitting against the neck and body with the warmth and softness that synthetic linings cannot replicate, the lammy lining having settled and softened through years of wearing into something that new shearling takes considerable time to become. Slanted side pockets sit at a natural angle into the front, a jetted zip pocket above completing the exterior. The jacket's weight when worn is immediate and reassuring, the cowhide and shearling together producing something that sits in a different category from anything made last season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA genuine patina on a vintage Ralph Lauren pilot jacket is a straightforward thing to recognise and an impossible thing to fake. This one has had decades to develop it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ralph Lauren","offers":[{"title":"56 IT \/ 46 US \/ Extra Extra Large \/ Dark Grey \/ 100% Leather","offer_id":59102017519948,"sku":"SA02824","price":878.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/6187\/1105\/files\/B988FA13-200D-485F-A7AA-A8034B8A7589.png?v=1791451741","url":"https:\/\/sartorialistamsterdam.com\/nl\/products\/ralph-lauren-dark-grey-vintage-cowhide-sheepskin-lammy-pilot-jacket","provider":"Sartorialista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}