Biker jacket or what?

[sproily]

Guesses on age? The lining is a rough fabric, not flannel.

PS. Just found this from a 1937 leaflet. http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/pienpai...49&pageFrame_currPage=6&pageFrame_currFrame=2

It says that it's for engine drivers. The one I have must be newer because of the size tag.

 

[HDRnR]

I think it all depends on how the arms are cut, if you can put your arms up on the bars and the jacket doesnt bunch up in the shoulders and pull up on the sides, then its a biker jacket as far as I'm concerned.

 

[scottyrocks]

Leather jackets with button front closures are not biker jackets afaic. It would billow like crazy, not to mention provide limited weather protection.

 

[HDRnR]

Leather jackets with button front closures are not biker jackets afaic. It would billow like crazy, not to mention provide limited weather protection.

Yeah but it does have some sort of double breasted design and the collar is like a mandarin style.

 

[Edward]

Plus, AFAIK, zips weren't that common before the Thirties... maybe a later rendition of an earlier style?

 

[Fletch]

Motorcycle jacket, sure.
Biker jacket, NO WAY.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Utility jacket. Could have been worn on a motorcycle. A very common style in 30s-50s Northern and Central Europe. You see lots of bona fide biker jackets from Germany and from the 50s with just this styling. Sometimes (rarely) with the trousers to match.

bk

 

[AEH]

Can't comment on the style, but the label is in Swedish and reads "Guarantied Real Goat hide".

 

[sproily]

Well aware of that

 

[Seb Lucas]

I've always known that style as a leather donkey jacket - used by laborers, truck drivers, engine drivers, etc, etc. Utility jacket is quite a good label for them too. You also see them in corduroy.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

This would be more the donkey jacket to me. Very much associated with the coal mining industry in the UK.

Vivid images in my mind of the '84 flying pickets on the roads passing the collieries on the way to Edinburgh. Interesting times.

 

[Seb Lucas]

Yes, Baron I've had those kind of donkey jackets too. Over here a variation without the leather is called the Bluey jacket. The cord ones are harder to find these days. The Americans tend to call jackets like these chore jackets, I understand. The denim ones are especially sought after.

 

[rgraham]

The collar is about the only thing that I would associate with a motorcycle jacket. The sleeves are too wide, and would let in bugs and wind. You'd have to have some pretty large gauntlet gloves to cover them.

 

[ziggytsardust]

Guesses on age? The lining is a rough fabric, not flannel.

PS. Just found this from a 1937 leaflet. http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/pienpai...49&pageFrame_currPage=6&pageFrame_currFrame=2

It says that it's for engine drivers. The one I have must be newer because of the size tag.

do you have any pictures of you wearing the jacket buttoned up?

 

[Alexander Church]

Reminds me more of a jacket someone racing around on a Model T convertible would be wearing, otherwise I don't think it would serve the Biker jacket purpose