Leather Jackets: Post Pictures of the Best You've Seen/Owned?

[DavidLane]

A good rule of thumb is that if you hear a cute just-so story about etymology, it isn't true.

Surprised you used "rule of thumb" for your explanation of etymology.

-DL

 

[AriGold]

my mum told me leather jackets are less in fashion these days. Does she have A point?!

 

[AriGold]

awesome jacket dude. The new Aero looks amazing. How would you describe the battered HH leather?!

Not much else to do lately so I will post some recent pics. Wested Raiders Hero in Prague, late February.

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Here’s a new Aero x Thurston Bros Ridley in dark seal Vicenza and antique brass hardware waiting for me at my sister’s house.

Don’t mind her poor photo skills

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Looking forward to getting this on and broken in once this mess is over.
I also have an Aero August in battered tan horsehide and a Bill Kelso Raiders on order.

 

[marker2037]

awesome jacket dude. The new Aero looks amazing. How would you describe the battered HH leather?!

Thanks This Ridley is Vicenza actually. I don't have the battered HH jacket yet so I'll have to give opinions in probably 3-6 months when this is all over lol.

 

[Benesyed]

I thought it was a RO piece at first!

 

[qubed]

Surprised you used "rule of thumb" for your explanation of etymology.

-DL

I'm surprised you didn't apologize for spreading misinformation. Oh wait, no I'm not.

 

[d4nimal]

Rule of thumb. Well, can't do much damage with that then, can we? Perhaps it should have been the rule of wrist?

 

[hoodog]

my mum told me leather jackets are less in fashion these days. Does she have A point?!

She does.

 

[DavidLane]

I'm surprised you didn't apologize for spreading misinformation. Oh wait, no I'm not.

I did no such thing. Sumerians used urine, feces and brain matter to tan leather in 2500-3000bce. Well before any vegetable tanning. There were also common “piss pots” used in medieval Europe.

Happy to continue this via PM. I am sure no one else here cares what we think.

-DL

 

[Fuuma]

The "piss poor" etymology is also false. (The earliest use recorded in the OED comes from … 1945.) cf. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pis1.htm

Djuna Barnes ?

 

[double00]

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[oulipien]

For shoes and boots, sure.

 

[qubed]

I did no such thing. Sumerians used urine, feces and brain matter to tan leather in 2500-3000bce. Well before any vegetable tanning. There were also common “piss pots” used in medieval Europe.

Happy to continue this via PM. I am sure no one else here cares what we think.

-DL

You were absolutely wrong about the origins of the words “tanning” and “piss poor”.

 

[oulipien]

Yeah, no one is denying that you can use urine to tan things.

(By the way, the origin of "rule of thumb" is not known, but it does not come from a rule about the thicknesses of switches.)

 

[leisurewear]

this dick size competition over the origins of phrases nobody uses anymore on a thread about leather jackets is truly wild.