Leather jacket
A leather jacket is a garment, a jacket made of leather. The jacket typically has brown, dark gray or black colors. Leather jackets can be cut in a variety of styles and many special types are associated with certain subcultures. For example, the leather jacket has often been associated with rockers, rock stars, punks, goths, metalheads, Rivetheads, fighter pilots and police officers who wore variations for protection or for their potentially intimidating appearance.
In the 20th century the leather jacket achieved iconic status, mainly through the film. Examples include the Perfecto motorcycle jacket worn by Marlon Brando's Johnny in The Wild One Strabler (1953), Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale in The Avengers, and Michael Pare in Eddie and the Cruisers (1983). All of these served to make the leather jacket with the American and British youth popular, ranging from the " Greaser " subculture in the 1950s and early 1960s. A later representation of this kind of jackets and the time were " The Fonz " in the TV show " Happy Days ", which was produced in the 1970s and 1980s, but depicted life in the 1950s and 1960s. The Fonz 's leather jacket is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution, and the Grease movie duo has since also leather jackets popularized with their male T-Birds gang. At that time the cost of a leather jacket between $ 7 and $ 20, at that time a lot of money.
Most leather jackets are produced in Italy and Kanpur (India).
Leather jackets were worn by pilots and members of the military were brown and were often referred to as bomber jackets, as you could see many stars in the 1940s and 1950s. The brown leather jacket was an essential part of the wardrobe of Hollywood adventurers, from Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls to Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones movies. While the black leather jacket fad ended in the early 1960s, remained bomber jackets, often with a sheepskin collar, popular. You can see them in the film Top Gun (1986).
There are many more examples of iconic leather jackets in popular culture, such as that carried by the T-800 character from Terminator films and the longer ¾ length trench coat style worn by action heroes like Steven Seagal or Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne in the Matrix movies. Another example is carried by Brad Pitt Leather Jacket in the movie Fight Club, where the antagonist " Tyler Durden " constantly comes up with other variants of its ' red ' leather jackets. Other famous leather jacket icons include the costs borne by members of the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s, a punk rock groups such as the Ramones, The Libertines, members of the heavy metal subculture, etc. In most of the examples from pop culture are the jackets of supported people who maintain an intimidating or potentially violent or rebellious image. The light brown leather jacket became very popular in the area Britpop and independent music image and culture, and was carried, among others, by Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics. The punk culture puts on leather jackets with accessories such as chains, bolts or rivets. Many " metalheads " stick to the Judas -Priest look ( black leather jacket and leather pants, chains, and a plethora of rivets).
There are considerable differences between leather jackets made for fashion purposes and those are worn for protection ( in activities such as motorcycling ). Leather jackets have been designed to protective purposes, safety equipment and are heavier, thicker and often reinforced with plates, and thus become a very practical item of clothing, regardless of the induced by the pop culture symbolism. A leather jacket that was designed for fashion purposes, would offer no protection in a motorcycle accident.
Leather jackets will also find as a uniform or uniform use. So you can find them in Germany as part of uniforms or uniform at the police, customs, regulatory agencies, for the driver of the Deutsche Bahn or other municipal and private transport companies.