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All the components that go into making an Eastman, have been painstakingly recreated at great expense. The materials and the methods of the manufacture of these garments were commonly available fifty years ago. Today, the ingredients needed to reproduce these materials are mostly gone, long ago superseded by more modern flying jackets methods. To a large extent, this is what you are paying for in an Eastman garment. For, to have specially made, these materials require our suppliers to step out of their normal line of production, hence making them more costly to produce. Making these old style materials again requires flying jackets starting from scratch - re-tooling, researching, digging down through old documents trying to find the original specs - and quite often it takes more than one go to get it right, absorbing tremendous amounts of time before doing so.
Our jackets are made only from hide types and tanning processes found flying jackets on originals. There are basically two processes of tanning, vegetable and chrome, the former being the earlier method. Both were used during the wartime period. Sometimes a mixture of both veg and chrome were used. Veg tanning is by far the more expensive method, as it flying jackets takes much longer to produce. Nowadays, apart from some very exclusive garments, veg tanned leather is unheard of. You will see that we make prevalent use of veg tanned skins were it is authentic to do so. Our reproductions of the 'early war' garments have to be veg tanned, flying jackets as this was the process used at that time.