Pushing the troll to one side, as far as black leather jacket goes, I think there's an age thing involved. Back in the 50s/60s, there was still a connotation of fascism about black leather jackets - the Wild One etc - so teens could piss off their parents and 'the man' easily by wearing one. Decades on, this transgressive association abides among teenagers and I suspect as people get older, people unconsciously steer clear of it for this reason and prefer brown or other colours in general - which handily happen to be more flexible with That said, once you've got a range of colours/hides, you'll probably want a black to finish off the collection...