Year 3 of leather jacket hunt (this is a cry for help)
Basic criteria:
- dark/deeply desaturated brown (like the 2 shades in attached image)
- utility (?) style, no dangling zippers on pockets, but also should come with pockets
- should be sized for someone 160cm 🧍♂️ id like a slightly cropped bottom so its not covering my posterior
Budget: ideally around 100-150 USD but im willing to splurge a few hundred more if it fits my wants. Willing to buy secondhand but i find sizing particularily difficult.
I'm located in china if theres anything local i can check out.
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the style you’re looking for seems to be based on a type 3 trucker jacket
Nice, that helps to narrow down the search terms im using 🙂↕️ im not strict on the particular stylings, just that it shouldnt have a lot of embelishments like biker jackets or be completely barren like a contemporary bomber jacket
I'm aware that this is outside of your budget by a large amount, however this is pretty much exactly what you are looking for
Aero Leather Clothing
Type III Jean Jacket
Buy Type III Jean Jacket on Aero Leather Clothing for £1,080.00
It can help to know what you are searching for on secondhand markets
Aero are available in large numbers on the Japanese secondhand market (also in the UK & US but Japanese market may be easier for you due to location)
I'm not aware of any makers but there is also a good chance there are some Chinese makers who are all also making this style of jacket
Sounds like an a-2 would be a good option. The brown shades very quite a bit but you can find some dark ones, below are a couple examples from ebay
eBay
Vintage Brown Leather Aviator Bomber Jacket A-2 Style Military Avir...
Beautiful vintage a2 style bomber jacket Jacket has no major flaws Tagged size medium 22x28 inches
eBay
Vintage Cooper A-2 U.S Air Force Flight Goatskin Leather Jacket Mad...
Shoulder to bottom-23. leather in pristine condition.
Sauce Zhan has a Lee Rider style leather jacket in black for that price, check their Taobao page. It's a tad longer than the jacket traditionally is but might still work for you.
Thanks for the recs yall, ill take a closer look over the weekend 🫡
Sauce zhan stuff looks awesome, def on my radar now
There are other Taobao stores that specialize in leather jackets. They might be worth checking out even though Sauce Zhan has a good reputation.
Would you happen to have the names of these other tb stores? Or should i just filter by # of store reviews and work my way down? 👀
just search for leather jackets and you can look up the stores youself:
If you are in china, just look on taobao for anything with “复古皮夹克” and browse those shops. Type 3 leather jackets might be made by those new americana shops.