Type 3 jean leather jacket

[Harris HTM]

I like the look more with pockets. When they are not there, it seems to me that they forgot to make them.

Call me a purist (which I am not) but I think that handwarmers destroy the design of this jacket. I fully understand that they could be practical but from a design point of view I would say no, you introduce two short diagonal lines (slits) right between the nice vertical lines.

 

[Bennarion]

@Harris HTM, everyone has their own view on this

 

[Harris HTM]

@Harris HTM, everyone has their own view on this

Never claimed the opposite.

 

[Guppy]

I like the look more with pockets. When they are not there, it seems to me that they forgot to make them.

I'm an 80s kid, so the updated look with the handwarmer pockets always looked right to me, and without them it looks like it's wrong to me.

On the Levi's inclined jackets the way they sew the hand warmer bags into the shell creates a very useful inside pocket, which makes it even better, a 1000% improved design over the original 2-pocket version.

 

[Tim Tempest]

Hi all, this is my first time posting here.

As the title suggest, I have a question about the type 3 leather jacket.

I have been looking for a leather jacket for a long time, wanting to find the perfect one. I find this one on Aero's website and its perfect, since I can modify it to my liking. A little longe, little boxy on the chest, little wider on bicep/upper arm area. However, Aero refuses to make hand warmer pockets, and I feel like I can't use a jacket without it.

So now I come here, wanting to find out if there is another place I can buy this type of jacket, with the same quality and customization? Or am I forced to bite the ****** and try to live without hand warmer pockets...

Thanks in advance for the help!

Hand warmer pockets… I dunno whether this qualifies but I got an AERO c.h.i.p.s jacket from them & they added two brass zipped moleskin lined pockets ,& another inside..
(I notice their stuff isn’t ‘tailored’ ,as in some places, the bottom of a 44” chest jacket is 42” type thing.. Y2 & other Japanese outlets are like this)
Have you checked out Master Supply Co & or Iron & Resin,as they are relatively cheaper priced than some of these stores & their leather type 3s & Jean jacket styles are nice & short (24.5” on my mine)as well as not flaring out at the bottom

 

[Tim Tempest]

Yes I have seen this, and it looks really good, though a little expensive.

Just feel like I can't in good consciousness spend that kind of money and not have it be perfect, especially when the perfect jacket for me is so close to being real, but aero doesn't want to add hand warmer pockets haha

It is really sad .. I also found them slightly hard work & they messed it up more than once
They are rated very highly but it’s like Simmons Bilt they are a bit up themselves in my opinion & I heard someone else on here say that it wasn’t just me but that they had their messages ignored too. I also had my order for an off the rail ranch jacket (42”) cancelled A MONTH after the order .. just pettiness..
You could also try rugged west apparel I think they’re called

 

[TartuWolf]

If you can get past the lack of hand warmer pockets then a Vanson DJCB is a great option. Very V shaped with relatively wide shoulders and a very narrow bottom hem.

 

[ThorKaas]

If you can get past the lack of hand warmer pockets then a Vanson DJCB is a great option. Very V shaped with relatively wide shoulders and a very narrow bottom hem.
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If I could look past the lack of hand warmers, I would just order from Aero

 

[Guppy]

We need to convince Aero that in Back to the Future, Marty McFly introduced mid-80s fashion into 1955,thereby making handwarmer pockets on a Jean jacket officially pre-1960 fashion.

 

[Edward]

Call me a purist (which I am not) but I think that handwarmers destroy the design of this jacket. I fully understand that they could be practical but from a design point of view I would say no, you introduce two short diagonal lines (slits) right between the nice vertical lines.

Yeah, that's where I end up with it too. I had a denim type three for years (1989-c.1998), wore it hard, but I never actually much used (apart from that one time I stashed a brown sauce sachet in one of them.... that was later squashed.... ) the handwarmers, and came to dislike them. Actually I think they were the beginnings of why I came to dislike the Type 3 entirely for a long time - just such a busy design. The Wrangler variation from their Cowboy Cut ranged does it better than the usual handwarmer equipped versions, to my eye by hiding the pocket openings in the seam.

The one I'd love to see Aero have a go at recreating in leather is the old Wrangler 11MJ:

Wrangler have reissued this one in denim over the years, but every time they do a version I can get in the UK at what I'd be prepared to spend on denim, they mess it up - elongated body, no pleats, studs instead of a zip... you name it. This one of course first came out, with handwarmers, in 1948. That would satisfy both Aero and the handwarmer fans... ;-)


A non-issue for me - honestly, the only reason I have handwarmers on any jacket is purely cosmetic. Sometimes, if they're zipped one on a bike jacket, use them for storage, but otherwise on leather, or a Harrington or whatever - they might as well be faux on my jackets. Never use 'em.

I understand the frustration - I feel much the same about Rickenbacker's refuse to do an affordable version of the 4003 (at all, let alone left handed), but at the same time, as with Ric, I find it reassuring to know there are still companies in the world who care more about their ethos, their design principles, than about compromising that purely because it would sell more units.