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Docwagon1776

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Yeah, no. This is a very heavy, and very expensive aviator's jacket that was given to me by a company that I flew for. In fact, it is so heavy that I have to hang it on a special heavy duty wide hangar.

Odds it's so finicky about care then. I've got a 'real' one that's some 15 years old, never had anything done to it but occasional wipeoffs and is good as new. It's been through some pretty nasty weather as well. It was my motorcycle jacket when I rode as long as there wasn't ice on the ground.
 

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When I went over specs to order one , I noticed the 10th edition had different seats--leather trimmed as I recall. My 2022 Longhorn has the brown all leather seats.
 

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Those days are long gone, at one time Chrysler vehicles featured fine Corinthian leather seats..
Those seats were part vinyl also. I bought an 84 Fifth Ave with leather seats it was just the seating area and the fold down armrest.
 

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I'm sure you guys know this but "Fine Corinthian Leather" was a term that Ricardo Montalban made up on the fly. There is no such thing.
 

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What part is leather, what part isn't? They often advertise 'leather seating surfaces', which means the parts you touch when you sit in it.

Same with a leather couch we had at home. Sides and back not leather. Have to say it was over a month before I even noticed that.

This is accurate. Many moons ago working in the furniture business, a couch or sectional was legally advertised as a " Leather coach/ sectional" as long as the seating surfaces that you directly contact are leather panels. The back & sides were usually pleather or the like, not actual leather.
 

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I'm sure you guys know this but "Fine Corinthian Leather" was a term that Ricardo Montalban made up on the fly. There is no such thing.

Ricardo popularized it, but did not come up with the marketing jargon and it was not done on the fly. A marketing company named Bozell came up with it. Corinth was a city-state of ancient Greece and gives it's name to Corinthian columns, what you probably picture in your head when you think of the decorative marble pillars in many ancient Greek buildings (other types exist, such as the more plain Doric). The name was designed to evoke the feeling of substance, aesthetics, and history and people reacted well to it so it make the ad copy for Ricardo to read.

Same people who did the "Pork: The Other White Meat" campaign.
 

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It used to be Laramie was leather trimmed, and Longhorn and Limited were leather.
I have 2 1500 Laramie's...2020 and a 2017...
Both have full leather interiors/seats front and rear...at least they "feel" like leather; but definitely not cloth or other "non-leather" material.
 
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I have 2 1500 Laramie's...2020 and a 2017...
Both have full leather interiors/seats front and rear...at least they "feel" like leather; but definitely not cloth or other "non-leather" material.
Laramie more vinyl less leather
 

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I'm sure you guys know this but "Fine Corinthian Leather" was a term that Ricardo Montalban made up on the fly. There is no such thing.
Cordoba, for the smooth ride!
 
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