WARDROBE MUST-HAVE: LEATHER JACKET
The leather jacket is a true evergreen of both male and female wardrobe, certainly one of the most famous garment.
The leather jacket made its debut in the 1920s in New York when Irving and Jack Schott began to manufacture a leather biker jacket by hand in a small shop on the Lower East Side. The same Schott brothers, in 1928, had the idea of adding a zipper, decreeing the success, in the biker subculture, of the Perfecto, this is his name, inspired by Irving's favorite cigar brand.
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But it was only in the 1950s that it became the protagonist of spring men's and women's fashion (a role that he has never abandoned) involving entire generations, thanks also to the influence of the multimedia industry: in 1953 the character played by Marlon Brando in the film The Wild One, wears a Schott Perfecto 618with the famous emblem with the skull and crossed pistons painted on his back and his name (Johnny) embroidered on the heart.
An all-male prerogative until 1978, when, in the movie Grease, Olivia Newton-John appears dressed with this type of jacket, clearing it as a female garment too, even to match it with the miniskirt. Usually associated with bikers (impossible not to think of the cult series Sons of Anarchy), the leather jacket conveys a gritty and aggressive style, but also very glam. This rock-metal and punk icon has established itself as an evergreen also in 2019.
Colored, embroidered or with precious and elegant details, the leather jacket is a versatile and trendy item to wear during any occasion. For a casual or more challenging and sexy look, it allows you to match quick and easy outfits. This leather jacket has found its place in most styles over the decades: from bikers to hipsters, to trendsetters and sportsmen, becoming part of the unisex street uniform.
The classic jacket is made strictly in black leather, cut at the waist, with a lightning belt, and a central opening on the sleeves, rigorously long, but today it is also worn in a colored version, preferably in natural shades of beige, petrol green and white- off.
