Grizzy Jackets: Laskin Lamb and Horsehide Make Music Together
Some of my personal favorite jackets are the super tough flamboyant productions of the 1930s and 1940s. Jackets appealed to both the male sensibilities of masculinity, pomp and utility. There is no other way to explain the incredible concoctions of early horsehide jackets and grizzly jackets. Now before we get concerned with the endangered grizzly...this is more of a nom-de-plume. The grizzly refers to jackets with fur on front. These jackets are often harking back to the rough and tumble pioneer period in North America. Early settlers, natives and traders would wear leather garments that were often simply tanned with bark or brain tanning and had basic robe like construction. Fur was rarely removed and often worn on the outside of the jacket. Heck, if it can keep a buffalo warm why not a man. Many of the seriously tough men and motorcyclists of the 1930s could often be seen photographed in fur on grizzly jackets while riding dirt roads of the back country.
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ReplyDeleteCould you please drop the URL to the gray leather jacket you have here...I'd like to have a look and see how much they're asking for it...I kind of adore leather jacket and have quite a collection...but I have nothing of this sort...the leather looks pretty strange..has that effect like it's full of tiny holes
if you click on the hyper link *in yellow for punk rock max you will see the link to the auction
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I love this jacket. I want to make a fur/leather combo of sorts soon. The leather almost looks like pig or ostrich, but there are multiple hair/feather follicle holes, not just a singular follicle like you normally see. Could it just be an embossed leather?
ReplyDeleteit looks like horse that was softened by texturizing...I have seen this leather many times before from 1930s jackets...maybe it was a dual...fake piggy, and softening I dont know really
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