how many leather jacket should you have?

[Edward]

As many as you can own and enjoy to the full without skimping on other resonsibilities, going into debt, or resorting to crime.

 

[Seskoad1978]

thanks folks for the reply... I have 4 cowboy boots, one engineer boots and paddock boots. Always worn and rotate them. Mostly I wear cowboy boots when riding horse or motorcycle, and go to my farm with them. Love boots since I was a kid. And correct, it's never enough...Now I also look for either one or 2 more...

I guess you all are right, better see the pockets. I am now thinking to get Langlitz Cascade in future first...then lewis then buco then....*shit, when it stops*

 

[Benzadmiral]

I'd love to have 1 black and 1 brown. But my living situation -- in a pesthole with but 2 seasons, January and summer -- doesn't lend itself to more than 1 jacket. My old standby brown A-2 lookalike from Dillard's in 1989 is still doing well. If I were to order one of the A-1 Aeromarine models with the buttons and shawl collar when summer is technically "over" (around September), by the time I received the jacket, the weather would be hot again. Gah.

 

[regius]

you should either one just one, or have one of each style and leather...

 

[handymike]

I think the real answer is 3.
I waist length zip-up, 1 waist length button-up, and 1 longer one...
If you live in a cold region, add 1 Winter coat

 

[eugenesque]

I am from the tropics and I have 4 but recently sold 1. Don't get me started on the dreadful weather.

 

[TPD166]

I've finally set a hard limit - not more than eleventy-five.

 

[dioxide]

I have about 3-4 but I usually end up rotating between the 3 and leave the 4th somewhere in the closet. A friend I know has over 6-8 jackets and personally I believe he only wears 2 out of those he owns.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Less than two weeks after I wrote the above, I purchased a Wested Raiders jacket in a very dark brown goatskin. In low light it looks black. And I haven't gotten rid of the old A-2 lookalike from Dillard's -- so now I do have 1 "black" and 1 brown.

The weather is still awful, though, and some of my outer clothing has got to go.

 

[Sloan1874]

I've got around seven, including two sheep skins, and they all have very defined seasons that they get pulled out for and certain looks/clothes and get plenty of wear. I reckon I've got room for one or two more: a third A-2 and bootlegger or similar. I never quite worked out what those people with closets full of A-2s do with them, tbh.

 

[HGalindez]

I probably have close to 10 different jackets I wear during different seasons. In a tropical area you don't have to worry about snow and ice but here in PA you do and that's when I wear my B3 Sheepskin Bomber. I have a decent compilation of A-2's, G-1's, motorcycle jackets etc. My friend is more of a collector and has a whole area in his basement where he displays them. I guess it all comes down to your disposable income. I would say its best to have at least 2 so you can swap out for a different style when you like to.

 

[MisterCairo]

Doing best impression of Chandler Bing from Friends:

"Can you have too many leather jackets"?

 

[tropicalbob]

I, too, live in a tropical miasma. I currently own one good jacket, a brown Aero LHB that I've had for six years and love to death. I like the idea of having one leather jacket as an all-purpose, go-to sort of thing, and I get a surprising amount of wear out of it: from the end of November until about this time of year I can wear it most nights and some days comfortably (I had it on last night). Last year I bought a beautiful, lightweight black leather from Terry, but it was just a tad small, and anyway my wife commandeered it (looks great on her). I tell myself I don't really want or need a black leather, and sometimes I actually believe it. A certain party in Oz has one in the Classifieds as I type, and I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend banging my head on my desk and cursing the winds of fate.

 

[Americanaaa Mark]

Minimum, 1

Maximum, how many you like

 

[johnnycanuck]

I have had at least one leather jacket from the age of 10. This last winter I have lost 50 pounds. So none of them fit me anymore. I have dropped from a 44"-46" to a 38"-40". I am seriously facing the reality of my first year without a leather jacket since I was a child. Not good.
Johnny