Leather jackets

A leather jacket is a piece of outerwear. It is usually brown, dark grey or black in color. This item of clothing has achieved iconic status in the 20th century, and has become associated with many subcultures in different places and times. Since leather jackets can be styled in many different ways many different versions have come to be associated with these different groups. For instance, they have often been associated with bikers, military aviators, punks, and police, which have worn versions designed for protective purposes and often for their potentially intimidating appearance. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Modern leather-working tools Leather is a material created through the tanning of hides, pelts and skins of animals, primarily cows. ... Look up jacket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A jacket is an outer garment worn by both men and women, for warmth or fashion. ... (See also List of types of clothing and Clothing terminology) Humans nearly universally wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments, or attire) on the body. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... A Biker is someone who rides a motorcycle (motorbike). ... Aviators are people who fly aircraft either for pleasure or for a job. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Popularized by Marlon Brando's Jimmy Strabler character in The Wild One (1953) and by James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without A Cause as well as Michael Pare in the Eddie And The Cruisers film duo, leather jackets were popular with United States and British youth from the "greaser" subculture in the 1950s and early 1960s. A later depiction of this style of jacket and time was "The Fonz" in the television series "Happy Days" which was produced in the 1970s but depicted life in the 1950s. The Fonz's leather jacket is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution, and the Grease movie duo has also since popularized leather jackets with their T-Birds male clique. What are you rebelling against? What have you got? The Wild One (1953) was the very first outlaw biker film, also made memorable by the youthful Marlon Brando playing gang leader Johnny Stabler. ... James Dean James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was a charismatic American film actor who epitomized youthful angst. ... Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film which tells the story of a rebellious teenager who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents and faces the local gang. ... Michael Paré (born October 9, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. ... Arthur The Fonz Fonzarelli (played by Henry Winkler) was a character in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Happy Days is a popular United States television sitcom that originally aired between 1974 and 1984 on the ABC television network. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... The word grease can mean:- A type of industrial lubricant: see grease (lubricant). ...

The leather jackets worn by aviators and members of the military were brown in color and frequently called "Bomber jackets" as seen on numerous stars in the 1940s and 1950s such as Jimmy Stewart in the 1957 film, Night Passage. While the black leather jacket fad ended in the early 1960s, bomber jackets, often with sheepskin collars, have remained popular to this day. They can be seen in the 1986 film, Top Gun. Jimmy Stewart, photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 James Maitland Jimmy Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own... Species See text A Sheep is a mammal, one of several woolly ruminant quadrupeds in the genus Ovis. ... Top Gun is a 1986 American movie starring Tom Cruise. ...

There are many more examples of iconic leather jackets worn in popular cultue, such as the one worn by the T-800 character of The Terminator movies, in which became the main trademark of the Terminator cyborg, former WWE Wrestler Bret Hart's trademark leather jacket, leather jackets worn by members of the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s, punk rock groups such as the Ramones, members of heavy metal subcultures, etc. It is notable that in most examples the jackets have been worn by people cultivating an intimidating and potentially violent or rebellious image. Terminator T-800/T-850 without skin disguise Evil T-800 model 101 terminating T-850 model 101 In the fictional universe of the Terminator movies, the T-800 (full designation: Cyberdyne Systems Series 800-850) was to be the ultimate weapon devised by the military supercomputer Skynet to be... The Terminator is a 1984 sci-fi action film which became the break-through role for former body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian former professional wrestler, and part of the famous Hart wrestling family. ... The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary Black nationalist organization in the United States that formed in the late 1960s and grew to national prominence before falling apart due to factional rivalries stirred up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ... Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ...

There is a substantial difference between leather jackets made for fashionable purposes and for protective purposes (for activities like motorcycle riding). Leather jackets designed for protective use are safety equipment designed to protect the wearer from serious injury and are heavier, thicker, and often equipped with armor, thus becoming a very practical item of clothing regardless of the symbolism invested in them by popular culture. A leather jacket primarily designed for fashion purposes is not likely to be much use in a motorcycle accident.

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