{"id":40313,"date":"2023-03-19T19:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorprosa.com\/?p=40313"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:29:35","slug":"customised-leather-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorprosa.com\/en\/customised-leather-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Dressed in Pakistan \u2013 Customised Leather Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was cold-called on Instagram. Normally I never respond, but this request was different and I quickly realised: THIS could be interesting. An experience report: Buying a made-to-measure leather suit in the design of my choice – from Pakistan.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before you read, please note<\/strong>: this post was translated with the help of Deepl<\/a>.
If you find any errors \u2013 please have fun first and then give me a hint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who hasn’t seen them, the dubious offers in the inbox: sexual enhancers for everyone and everything, investments with astronomical returns, three million likes on Facebook for five dollars, even more millions from Nigerian princes. I delete and block them all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eshal Wasim also wrote to me unsolicited, but he hit the right button. His response to one of my Instagram posts sounded interesting, so I replied. After a few kind words, he got straight to the point, offering me a \u201ehigh quality, custom-made leather suit in the design of my choice\u201c<\/em>. At a sensational price and with free delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know all about the stalls in the slums at motorcycle shows: Shoddy workmanship, cuts for scarecrows, open seams even when unworn and cardboard for protection. If at all. Eshal dispelled my doubts with very good reviews from all sorts of countries. He also sent the usual influencer photos – and the girls really did cut a fine figure (Macho mode off<\/em>). Racing mates were pushing the leather hard into the kerbs. I don’t do that anymore, but hey \u2013 the asphalt on the Alpine passes is dangerous too, so there you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still hesitated: If you buy cheap, you buy twice. And even if the price is in the toy money category, it hurts to spend it twice. But when I read \u201eMade in Indonesia\u201c in the lining of my current textile suits, I pulled out the Instagram conversation again. As if I needed another argument: my Ducati leather suit was getting a bit tight in an awkward spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting a bit tight \u2013 my Dainese one-piece suit<\/h3><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a long story short, I placed the order. And why not? In the best case I get leather that fits well, otherwise you get this testimonial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my mind, black is NOT the only possible colour for a good motorcycle suit. My Held AeroSec textile suit is very close to the ideal, so I sent a picture of it to Pakistan. With a request for more white, more red and less black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magic on the Furka Pass<\/h3>

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I also wanted to show my patriotism as a border crosser in the area where Italy, Switzerland and Austria meet. So I asked for the tricolour. It took less than two hours for the first design to arrive by e-mail \u2013 and I liked it straight away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first design proposal from Meracious Sports<\/h3><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This one didn’t say cheap: I spotted ergonomically pre-shaped arms and legs, an aero hump, important sliders all over the place and lots of stretch fabric. I also recognised a lot of manufacturer’s logos, but for the price I thought a bit of publicity for a ride was perfectly acceptable. So: no requests for changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking
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The leather had to be made to measure, so \u201eone size fits all\u201c was not enough. Looking back on 30 years of motorcycling, I remembered clothes that were too wide in the belly (yes, unimaginable), too short in the legs, too long in the chest. They flapped in the wind, their zips pressed against the skin. Two-piece suits that did not fit properly, combined with painfully constricting pads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I realised all this when I had the chart with over 20 different measurements in front of me. A good piece of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s crazy what you can measure on your own body \u2026<\/h3><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Production
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I didn’t discuss production times and delivery dates, and the Vinschgau winter wouldn’t have given me any reason to. At these temperatures I would have worn the leather in front of the TV at best. But on the 27th of December my inbox rang: there are pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n