Bogart leather jacket in "the balck legion"1937

[Charlie]

Look pretty much like an Highwayman

 

[Charlie]

Better shots here !

Look isn't zip, it's buttons !!!

What a jacket again , love the collar shape ! Look how short it is ! (pants were high-waisted at this time, the belt were allmost over the nombrilla !)

 

[Charlie]

more details :

and some other caracter's jackets

a-1 and a "bootlleger" type

a really "jacket film" !

 

[BellyTank]

That jacket is very short, very close-fitting and made from a thin leather.
It's also a button-through jacket. But not so much like a Highwayman.
It is a great jacket.


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[Fletch]

Yeah, over on VLJ someone said this design in this hide wouldn't be made today. The market for leather has gone to moto and heavy hides.

I haven't got the Depression build myself (any longer ), but this would be an absolute corker in a ±2.5oz capeskin or horsehide such as used in Eastman's 1930s jackets.

 

[Charlie]

Yeah, over on VLJ someone said this design in this hide wouldn't be made today. The market for leather has gone to moto and heavy hides.

I haven't got the Depression build myself (any longer ), but this would be an absolute corker in a ±2.5oz capeskin or horsehide such as used in Eastman's 1930s jackets.

You're absolutly right Fletch, there's no longer place for jacket of this kind : it was mostly made in capeskin (a very light goat skin), or very light horsehide (you can't find it anymore). I've got the Eastman you're talking about, and I have one of the few remaining capeskin jacket (beacause they are fragile) : the leather of my "hartmann" is still too heavy. The capeskin is mutch like modern lambskin...

Bye