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A expensive friend who writes for the Ball and Mail Gazette business division asked me a peaked question; are you only caligraphy about and interested in men’s jackets? A ripple of horror shook my thorn, as I consider myself very sex equal in my interest in make. I had the sudden realization that I had affectionate very little duration to the woman’s leather jacket. I reflected on this, and reminded myself that my greatest delight in life is to place a fantastic leather jacket and have my sexy wife of one's bosom try it on! My second greatest delight is when her swish upscale friends have being in jealousy of her coined vintage jackets and grumble when they cant find anything near as useful at Holt Renfrew our topical upscale shopping close!
So why the lack of speak of women’s leather? Well, as I was reminded today, women not often wore leather in the old days. Leather was a operate jacket, a hunting jacket, a flying jacket but not so much a stamp jacket. Very few women’s leather jackets last in the historical take down as compared to men’s ones. It was the thinly scattered woman that wore leather. She was courageous and unique, blazing trails for today’s woman! These women were the Amelia Earharts and Katherine Hepburn’s, adventurers and gasp wearers! I unwavering to research Earhart today, and found out that she lived and worked right up the street from me on Spadina Ave in Toronto. Earhart came to Toronto to call upon her sister and stayed to be in action with returning war vets at the then Spadina Martial hospital up the public way from me. It was here at the Canadian Public Exhibition that she met flyers and discovered her suffering for flying. And it was women cognate her (rare and few and far between) that wore leather. Amelia’s darling jackets included a European tailored horsehide carve coat, and an Abercrombie A-1 mode of speech button up jacket. These were of moment styles that were much more typically worn to a thread by men and were the early prototypes for the much more celebrated jackets that were developed during...

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