Men's Leather Jackets

A leather jacket is one of the few things a man buys once and keeps for twenty years. That only holds if it is real leather and it fits properly. Both of those are worth more thought than the colour, and most people spend their time on the colour.

How to tell a real leather jacket from a fake one

A real leather jacket mens shoppers will keep has a few tells. Real leather has an uneven grain, because it came off an animal and animals are not uniform. It smells like leather rather than like plastic. It creases when you bend it instead of springing straight back. And it warms to your body temperature within a minute of putting it on, where faux stays cold and then goes clammy.

Every jacket in this category is real leather. The product page names which one: cowhide for weight and structure, lambskin for softness and drape, sheep leather for something in between. Where anything is faux, we write faux on the page rather than leaving you to work it out.

The shapes worth knowing

Biker. The asymmetric zip, the wide lapels, the belt at the waist. A biker leather jacket mens buyers pick is the loudest shape we sell and the one with the most history behind it.

Cafe racer. A straight centre zip and a short band collar, nothing else. If the biker is too much, this is the same idea with the volume down.

Bomber. Ribbed collar, cuffs and hem, boxy through the body. A bomber leather jacket mens shoppers reach for works over a hoodie in a way a biker never does.

High collar. No lapels at all, the collar stands up and closes at the throat. The newest of the four and the one growing fastest.

3/4 length coats. A 3 4 length leather jacket mens buyers choose covers the hip and works over a suit, which none of the four above will do.

Sheepskin and shearling for the cold months

From November a plain leather jacket stops being enough in this country. A sheepskin leather jacket mens buyers want is one hide with the wool still attached, fleece turned inwards. Our sheepskin jackets and B3 flying jackets are the warmest things we make. A quilted leather jacket is the lighter middle ground.

Black, brown, and the colours nobody expects

Black is what most men buy first and it is never wrong. Brown has been the story of the last two seasons and suits more faces than black does. Burgundy and red are for the second or third jacket. White, yellow and orange sell in smaller numbers but they sell, usually to people who already own the sensible ones. And suede is a different finish rather than a different colour, softer and better for early autumn.

How to choose the right size leather jacket

Do not start from the size you take on the high street. Leather is cut close and there is no stretch in it. Take a tape round the fullest part of your chest, over a shirt, keep it level, and do not pull it tight. Compare that number with the measurements table on the product page, which lists the jacket flat rather than the body it fits.

Two extra things. Shoulder seams should sit on the corner of your shoulder, not hanging over it, because a shoulder that is wrong cannot be altered. And if you are between two sizes and you plan to wear a jumper under it, take the larger of the two.

How to wear a leather jacket casually

The mistake is treating it as an outfit rather than a layer. A leather jacket works over a plain t shirt, a crew neck jumper or an open shirt, with jeans or dark chinos. It stops working the moment you put it with anything else that is trying hard. One loud item at a time. If the jacket is brown, brown boots are optional and brown everything is not.

Buying men’s leather jackets online in the UK

Most of what we sell sits between one hundred and twenty and two hundred pounds, with sheepskin going higher because a whole hide costs more than a panel. Delivery is free anywhere in the UK and you have 14 days to send it back if it is not right. We are online only, so there is no shop to visit, and the measurements table does the job the changing room would.

Made to order, and how long it takes

Leather coats and jackets, and what counts as genuine

Men’s leather coats and jackets get searched as one phrase often enough to be worth answering. A coat is anything past the hip, a jacket is anything shorter. Both are on this page and both are real hide.

A genuine leather jacket mens buyers want means the hide is real rather than bonded or coated. Bonded leather is offcuts glued to a backing and it cracks. We do not sell it. Every product page names the hide.

Your jacket is cut and stitched in your size after you order it. Nothing sits in a warehouse waiting, which is why this takes longer than ordering from somewhere selling ready made stock, and why the fit is closer. The delivery date on every product page is a real date rather than a range. The women’s range runs the same way.