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The Standard Raiders Jacket Vs Last Crusade Jacket

Round Two In The World of Jacket vs Jacket DING DING DING In one corner we have the heavy weight (or light weight if you’re ordering lamb) RAIDERS jacket. In...

Article By: Mick Kirk

Round Two In The World of Jacket vs Jacket

DING DING DING

In one corner we have the heavy weight (or light weight if you’re ordering lamb) RAIDERS jacket.

In the other corner we have… wait isn’t that the same jacket but with studs?

It’s not. It’s a Last Crusade Jacket.

So, today we’re going to educate the world on our STANDARD Raiders Jacket vs our STANDARD Last Crusade jacket.

(Just to be clear that means there will be no mention of any kind of the Hero Jacket, thats a separate Blog Post.

So Here We Go.

If you’re a confused person, you’re in the right place. If you’re a curious person, you’re in the right place. If you’re looking for funny memes about cats, you’re in the wrong place. This is a cat free event.

The Last Crusade jacket (known on the website as Last Crusade/Crystal Skull) and the Raiders jacket aren’t two worlds apart. They are standard fits so they are built off of the same size chart to fit the general public but there’s some key differences in appearances and in the fit that you might not notice in the photos shown on the website.

We will use two jackets for this post, both are made of Authentic Lambskin, both measure the following:

Size: 42″

Sleeve: 25″

Back: 26″

The only difference is one is a RAIDERS and one is a LAST CRUSADE.

Let’s begin the educating.

Note: we are comparing OUR two jackets, NOT the movies.

THE COLLAR

The collars and the storm flap are the most eyecatching difference, for starters the CRUSADE has a brass press stud at the top and bottom of the press stud. The CRUSADE quite clearly has a bigger collar by nearly a whole inch too.

The thing you probably didn’t notice till you saw the close up pictures is how the collars sit differently. The RAIDERS is often thought to have a “wonky collar” because of the way it sits but the storm flap is actually ever so slightly smaller, and the top is rounded closer to the collar. The CRUSADE has a bigger storm flap (1/4″) and has a squared off top, this makes the collar sit more symmetrical.

Two things to note about the below pictures

The colour is different between the Crusade and the Raiders because the sun went in – the Raiders pictures are the accurate colour of lambskin.
The Crusade collar stud is actually NOT done up, it’s sitting like that naturally.

Raiders Collars

Last Crusade Crystal Skull Collars

THE POCKETS

If you’re an Indy fan, you know that all the pockets on the Indy styles are different, you also know WHY that is. Are we gonna tell you? No!

We’re comparing jackets not films, jheeze. Do something by yourself.

JUST KIDDING, IF YOU ASK WE’LL SPILL BUT THIS IS A BLOG DEDICATED TO OUR JACKETS SO NOT HERE.

As you can see the RAIDERS pockets are ever so slightly smaller than the CRUSADE pockets, another thing you would have noticed in the pictures

*thinks to self that maybe clicking the blog was worth it*

Raiders Pockets

Last Crusade Crystal Skull Pockets

THE SHOULDERS

The shoulders are actually different sizes on the CRUSADE on the RAIDERS, I know I know it doesn’t state it on the website but those are approximate size charts only.

We make these blogs to give the CLEARER picture of how the item fits.

The RAIDERS actually has a smaller shoulder, the CRUSADE shoulder is a sloping shoulder. This changes the fit and causes the Raiders to look like the more tailored jacket and the Crusade to fit bigger gentleman better due to the slight allowance.

RAIDERS SHOULDER

CRUSADE SHOULDER

See, so far, there’s not a horrific difference.

Just subtle things here and there.

Not as confusing as the Hero Vs Raiders aye?

THE SIZING

Already onto the last thing?!

We were enjoying ourselves so much.

Maybe we can stall it out…

The

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This way of typing is bound to lose us sales over it being pure annoying.

How about gif stalling?

Temple of Doom

AWAITS SOMEONE TO SAY WE’RE USING A GIF FROM THE WRONG FILM

MWUHAHA

BACK TO THE MATTER AT HAND…

The actually sizing of the two jackets isn’t too different, besides the shoulders the only other thing that can come into the matter is the armholes. The CRUSADE has slightly bigger armholes, this can make the chest feel slightly roomier – it’s actually not! These two slight differences is what makes the RAIDERS the more tailored jacket of the two.

BUT

Don’t rule the CRUSADE out because it isn’t the slimmer fit. Bikers of the world and guys with broader shoulders should definitely go with the CRUSADE. The bigger armholes are better for movement and the fit in general is a great one. We have a lot of customers that come in with an idea of getting the RAIDERS but leave with the CRUSADE because they’ve felt a lot more comfortable with it. Not everyone wants a “smart jacket”.

Here’s some pictures to decide for yourself:

Crusade vs Raiders 1