Leather Police Jacket

[Dale Seago]

I've been thinking for some time of getting another bomber-style jacket for kilted casual wear -- in black, as black "goes with everything" and my previous leather bombers have been brown.

Thanks to this thread, I ultimately decided to go with San Diego Leather and ordered the A-2 style, which has always been my favorite, in black cowhide. Got it this morning, and I have to say I am beyond impressed. Length and fit are perfect, construction is impeccable, the leather is of excellent quality and superbly treated. Seriously built to last, too. . .When I first picked it up I almost thought they'd sent Kevlar body armor by mistake.

I love this jacket, and it's going with me on my martial-arts training trip to Japan right after Thanksgiving. Thanks, Riverkilt!!

[Riverkilt]

How cool is that! You're welcome. Know how you feel. I'm choosing my new G1 from them most every time I head out. Have it with me as my only jacket on this rezlands road trip.

I think the trick with them is to buy the made in USA styles - they make them, as opposed to the imports they carry.

The quality/value is top of the line.

[Dale Seago]

First wearing of my new bomber today, at a martial arts seminar in Sacramento:





Oh, and a better look at the shirt I'm wearing with it, also for the first time: An olive-green buttondown collar shirt of machine-washable wool, in a twill weave; from L.L. Bean:

[CMcG]

That police jacket really does like right with a kilt and I like the wool shirt too.

[Dale Seago]

That police jacket really does like right with a kilt and I like the wool shirt too.

Thanks! This jacket, unlike Riverkilt's, is the "Type A-2" design adopted by the US Army Air Corps in 1930; so it's very "Indiana Jones' Era". The original specs called for the color to be "seal brown", and all my leather bomber-style jackets in the past have been brown. . .so I felt like doing something different this time. San Diego Leather offer this model in both brown and black.

[Riverkilt]

A beauty! You have me looking at it. My father wore an A2 with the Army Air Corps and it got passed on to me, then I passed it on to my little brother and it disappeared...was actually thinking about getting an A2 too. But, they are so similar - full back on the A2...think I'd be the only one to notice the difference between the A2 and G1 around here.

Really like that full size sporran too.

[Dale Seago]

Really like that full size sporran too.

That one's a Ferguson Britt item, in black stingray skin. Leaving for training in Japan a week from tomorrow and plan to wear it there. :-) f you need anything more than you can carry in that one. . .you need a backpack.