Mr. Van Marwe, you’re comparing apples with onions. A leather jacket is not even constructed, it’s intended to be roomy. Originally, a suit jacket made of wool used to be made to the exact measurements of the wearer and always by hand by constructing the foreparts with different layers of cloth: a canvas, horse hair cloth etc. So it’s kind like of an armour that fits you and only you, not your brother, nor your father. The canvas follows your body precisely and it takes hours to get it stitched (if handmade) because the nature of the product is that it has to be precise. An industrial jacket is not made for you but for a bunch of people with different arm lengths, chests etc. AND it is not canvassed to your body size. With a suit jacket or sports jacket a trained tailor’s eye can see immediately if it’s made to your proportions or not, because the collar will come off when you move your hands and it won’t flatter your figure because as much. But obviously, there’s no respect for this tradition nor knowledge about it any longer. Industrialization has made us think that everything can be bought cheaper and cheaper and marketing says that it’s as good. The idea of having clothes made to just 1 person’s proportions is old fashioned, very-very time consuming and it does not meet a lot of understanding in this industrialized world. There’s nothing wrong with a leather jacket nor a machine made suit jacket at all. But if you Mr. Van Marve would know that it takes 60 hours to make a good jacket by hand on Savile Row and almost 100 hours for a suit, well then you can figure out that 5000 USD is not about marketing, on the contrary, margins are very, very low. There’s more marketing involved in your leather jacket. Tailors are not even well paid.
It’s like comparing a handmade chair with an Ikea chair. You can sit on both, but it’s not the same. If you do not see the esthetics of a hand made chair and are not willing to pay for it, no problem, buy a cheap one. But don’t tell us that a cheap industrial chair is as good as a handmade one.

1. This is not about leather jackets but suit jackets
2. I have never had a machine made jacket that was more comfortable than a handmade one.
3. The material alone doesn’t guarantee any comfort at all. The interlining is important and so is the cut.
We do not sell any jackets, you on the other hand do ;)

Discomfort in clothes especially suit is mainly do to poor cuts and inexperienced tailors. Not because they were not given 5000 dollars.
Poor fitting Chinese suits in the video and pictures is do to lack of tailoring experience even if they are given a million dollar they can’t improve.
For a good suit isn’t about handmade or being bespoke with high asking price. …but its about (1)where and who made the material …lf its ltaly and may be Zegna you can’t go wrong (2) who did the tailoring and were….if its ltaly and done by big names like Zegna and or any, you will have a nice suit that no any tailor on earth can match even if he is given a billion dollars.

regards
Sam

Best regards,
William G Novak,MD