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History Of Leather Jacket
Leather jacket is a type of clothing worn over other clothes typically tanned leather, and various animals. The skin is usually dyed black or various shades of brown, but a wide range of colors is possible. Leather jackets can be designed for many different purposes and specific styles are combined with bikers, military aviators, the police, and music subcultures (punk, goth, metalheads, rivetheads), which are worn alternately protective clothing patterns, trendy and sometimes a potentially intimidating appearance.
Leather jackets are made of modern Italy, India, Canada, Mexico and the United States, with the skin left in the meat industry. In early 1900, a brown leather flight jackets worn by aviators and soldiers, which is commonly called "bombers" were prized for their comfort and durability. Coat was frequently part of an integrated comprehensive package designed to protect fliers from exposure to extreme climatic conditions at high altitudes, and sometimes associated with the sheepskin inside intact hot.
Leather jackets are also commonly worn by the Russian Bolsheviks, and was almost a uniform for the Commissioners during the Russian Civil War, and later for the members of the Cheka. This practice is said to have been initiated by Sverdlov. In the second half of the 20th century century, the leather jacket iconic status and acceptance through an unbreakable connection to Hollywood. Jackets were popularized by countless stars in the 1940s and 1950s, including the actor Jimmy Stewart, who had actually ordered a squadron of American bombers during the Second World War. The brown leather jacket has become part of your wardrobe rigueur for Hollywood adventurer, from Gary Cooper in "Whom the Bell Tolls" with Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones" film series.
A leather jacket can be used to shape a character, providing an important ingredient to define the essence of "cool". The main examples are the perfect jacket worn by Marlon Brando motorcycle Johnny Strabler in The Wild One (1953), Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, and Michael Pare in Eddie and the Cruisers duo (1983 and 1989). Therefore, these served to popularize leather jackets in young Americans and British "greaser subculture" of the 1950's and early 1960.
Following the descriptions of this subculture is seen through the "Fonz" of the TV series "Happy Days", which was produced in 1970 and 1980, but it seems that life in 1950 and 1960. Otherwise, Fonzie's leather jacket is now placed in the Smithsonian Institution. In the film Eddie and the Cruisers, Grease and Duo. Flight jackets, remained in vogue for decades. In a word, the jacket is developing an intimate relationship with the movies jeans lilke.
There is a substantial difference between leather jackets made fashion and used for protection, such as motorcycles, personal protective equipment. Leather jackets designed for protective use are safety equipment and are heavier, thicker and often equipped with armor, making it a very practical garment, regardless of the symbolism invested in them by popular culture. A leather jacket designed primarily for reasons of fashion, is not likely to be useful in a motorcycle accident due to its lightweight construction. Motorcycle jackets are often more important zippers, pockets and tight closures, collars top, and the style will be more behind the front to protect the kidneys from the cold of the pilots, while bending over issues of their machine.


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