Talking Leather with Antonio Part 2 | Himel Bros.

David sits down with his friend Antonio (@threads.md) for a long conversation about jackets, history and why any of this matters. This is about 25 minutes of the good stuff. They get into how the little shops before the war turned into the big American makers, and how offshore production and knockoffs almost wiped all that knowledge out. When you copy a copy over and over you end up with garbage. That’s why Himel Bros is three and a half people making things slow and one at a time. Antonio also tries on the Ross from the new Dominion run. David walks him through the American full veg horsehide that took six years to develop, the real Talon zippers, the pocket from a vintage jacket he lost on eBay by one bid, and why every jacket gets cut by hand so the grain and colour match. himelbros.com