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LEATHER JACKET

A cowhide jacket is a longer jacket that is normally worn over other attire or thing of garments and produced using the treated leather of different creatures. The calfskin material is regularly colored dark or different shades of darker, yet an extensive variety of hues is conceivable. Calfskin coats can be intended for some reasons, and particular styles have been related with subcultures, for example, greasers, rednecks, cattle rustlers, motorcyclists, military pilots, mobsters, police, mystery specialists, and music subcultures (punks, goths, metalheads ,rivetheads), who have worn the article of clothing for defensive or in vogue reasons, and once in a while to make a conceivably threatening appearance. National Leather Jacket day happens each June fourteenth since the Hell's Angels proposed the thought in 1975. Most present-day cowhide coats are delivered in Pakistan, India, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, utilizing conceals left over from the meat business. Textures mimicking calfskin, for example, polyurethane or PVC are utilized as options in contrast to true creature shroud cowhide contingent upon the requirements of the wearer, for example, those seeking after vegetarian ways of life or for financial reasons as engineered filaments have a tendency to be less exorbitant than bona fide calfskin.

RAW MATERIAL 

Antelope, buckskin, lambskin, sheepskin, and cowhide are the hides most commonly used to make leather jackets. As soon as the skin is removed from the animal at the meat processing plant, it is refrigerated, salted, or packed in barrels of brine. It is then sent to the tannery where the skins undergo a series of processes designed to preserve and soften the hides. Sewing materials such as thread, lining, seam tape, buttons, snaps, and zippers are generally bought from outside vendors and stored in the garment factory.

What are the best types of LEATHER JACKET 

Cowhide:

Cowhide is the most common leather used in leather jackets, not just because of its wide availability and low cost, but because of its toughness, durability, and resistance to water and dirt. 

Bison:

Buffalo Leather Jackets are separate from all calfskin coats. The calfskin is somewhat heavier than cowhide yet has the non-abrasiveness and suppleness of lambskin. The hand-maturing process in Bison Leather Jackets truly draws out the differed grain and unobtrusive shading varieties. Buffalo Leather Jackets have a tough and bone fie old-fashioned appearance. After a touch of everyday wear, Bison Leather Jackets will before long look like a multi-year old piece of clothing. Its exceptional mix of solace, sturdiness, uniqueness.

Deerskin:

Deerskins are garments, normally comprising of a coat and tights, produced using buckskin, a delicate suede calfskin from the stowaway of deer. Buckskins are frequently trimmed with a periphery – initially a practical detail, to enable the article of clothing to shed rain, and to dry quickly when wet in light of the fact that the periphery went about as a progression of wicks to scatter the water

Goatskin:

goatskins allude to the skin of a goat, which by long-haul use, is indicated by the term Morocco leather.[1] Kidskin, utilized for gloves, shoes and different frill, is customarily goatskin, albeit different calfskin, for example, sheep and kangaroo can be utilized to make a kid.

Lambskin:

Sheepskin is utilized to create sheepskin calfskin items and delicate fleece lined apparel or covers, including gloves, caps, shoes, stools, car situate covers, child and invalid mats and pelts. Sheepskin graduate, saddle cushions, saddle situate covers, sheepskin horse boots, tack linings and size tubes are additionally made and utilized in equestrianism.

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HIGH COST 

The manufacturing cost of making a leather jacket is high due to the price of the leather itself. It usually takes 70% of the cost price. Secondly, good jackets are handcrafted so therefore labor cost is also an added cost. Which also means good jackets cannot be manufactured like mass production. So, therefore, I believe that cost point acts as a caveat for anyone to give the genuine leather jacket at a low price.