A brief history of leather jackets!
Scarcely anything of menswear comes bundled with as much demeanour, legacy or unfiltered manliness as a leather jacket or coat. Inseparable from troublemakers and pilots, bikes and Marlon Brando, the leather jacket is high-testosterone menswear, but at the same time, it's a shockingly flexible work of art. No well-altered closet is finished without one. Men have been wearing covers up and skins since our knuckles quit skimming the floor, yet the leather jacket as we probably are aware it today came to conspicuousness in the mid-1900s. Earthy coloured leather bomber jackets were worn by the early pilots and the military, most eminently the German Air Force in World War I. The principal contemporary-glancing style showed up in 1928. A Manhattan parka creator, Irving Schott, fabricated a biker leather jacket for Harley Davidson. Named the 'Perfecto', after his number one stogie, this leather coat was worked to shield riders from the components and mishaps. During World War...