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Vintage Photos of Leather Jackets

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Uncle Wally - radio personality 1939

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Great photos, thanks for posting. It never ceases to interest me how common short waist-length leather jackets were in the old days, and the dizzying variety of styles and configurations. Short leather jackets are still popular I guess, but only as motorcycle or flight jackets.
 

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Great photos, thanks for posting. It never ceases to interest me how common short waist-length leather jackets were in the old days, and the dizzying variety of styles and configurations. Short leather jackets are still popular I guess, but only as motorcycle or flight jackets.
Short jackets were worn due to the very high rise in old timey pants. I’ve never really understood the love for those short jackets until I bought a great pair of wool army serge pants from 1951. They have a very high waist and no jacket that I own is short enough to make it look era-consistent. I’m 6“ and would need a 21-22“ back length for that. Most of my jackets are 24-25.5“ though. So the pants always look a bit off worn with all my jackets.
 

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Yep, it's all about the trousers. Once you have a pair with the right rise then the jacket length just falls into place. In today's world it can look costumey to some but if you get it right it still looks smart. Always makes me laugh that most people back then dressed smarter to work some fairly manual jobs than most people do going out to dinner these days.
 

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Yep, it's all about the trousers. Once you have a pair with the right rise then the jacket length just falls into place. In today's world it can look costumey to some but if you get it right it still looks smart. Always makes me laugh that most people back then dressed smarter to work some fairly manual jobs than most people do going out to dinner these days.

To me these modern dress pants with the low rise look completely off. I also think it looks stupid when the back pockets are hanging under your bottom. This is also due to the blend fabric which often looks like stockings.
I like the look of old timey high rise pants. Maybe I need a very short jacket some time.
It's just that I have this wonderful black denim pair which just fits my body perfectly. It's rather tight and mid rise though.




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Devlish, that picture is so close to an actual scene I witnessed on a red-eye flight back from Seattle two years ago. Three large construction guys sat right behind me, and I looked back an hour into the flight. It looked just like that, except that they were completely out. Might have been a fun little Kodak moment if I had known them. :)
 

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From "Giant From The Unknown" 1958.Much period outerwear.
 

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