Mens Brown Leather Flight Jacket with Fur Collar

A leather flight jacket is a waist length zip front jacket in the pattern issued to military aircrew, with ribbed knit cuffs and hem to seal the openings. This one is dark brown genuine leather with a fur lined folding collar and a viscose lining, in sizes XXS to 3XL.

This is the wearable one

If you are choosing between this and a B3, the difference is not quality. It is how much jacket you want. A B3 is a winter garment. It is bulky, it is warm, and it makes a statement whether you intended one or not. This is the lighter interpretation of the same lineage, with a ribbed hem instead of an open one and a viscose lining instead of a pile. That makes it a jacket you can wear from October to April rather than for six weeks. The ribbed hem seals at the waist so wind does not come up from below, which is the practical failing of the heavier jacket. It fits under a coat. It does not fight with a bag strap.

Brown is harder to wear than black and better when you get it right

Black goes with everything, which is why most people buy it and why most people look the same. Brown asks something of you. It fights with black trousers under most lighting and there is no styling trick that fixes that. It wants navy, grey, cream, olive or denim underneath and around it. What you get in return is a jacket with far more depth. Brown leather takes light differently across its surface, so it shows the grain and the shaping in a way black flattens out. It also ages visibly, developing lighter tone at the elbows and across the shoulders. On black that would read as damage. On brown it reads as the jacket becoming yours.

The collar is the flexibility

A fur lined folding collar is warm and it looks right on this pattern, but it is also the part that commits the jacket to winter. If the collar detaches, this becomes two jackets: a lined flight jacket for cold weather and a clean brown leather bomber for spring. Check the specification table on this page, because that one feature changes how many months of the year you get out of it.

Fit

Regular flight jacket cut, so take your usual size. There is room for a shirt and a fine knit. Ribbed cuffs and hem mean the jacket seals at the wrists and waist, which makes it feel closer than the chest measurement suggests. That is the point of the pattern and it is why a flight jacket keeps heat better than a straight hemmed jacket of the same weight.

Care

Condition twice a year and keep conditioner off the collar fur. Wipe rain off with a dry cloth and dry at room temperature. Do not put it on a radiator, because heat drives moisture out of the hide too fast and leaves it stiff. Store on a broad hanger with air around it, never in plastic.

Specification table

Specification	Detail
Outer material	Genuine leather
Lining	Viscose
Closure	Front zip
Collar	Shearling collar
Cuffs	knitted
External pockets	Two pockets at the waist
Internal pockets	Two inside
Back detail	Solid back
Colour	Dark Brown
Fit	Regular, takes a mid weight layer
Sizes	XXS to 3XL, plus made to measure
Care	Condition twice yearly. No machine wash, no heat drying

Garment measurements by size. Measured flat, in inches. These cells stay empty until you send production figures. Publishing a measurement that is wrong causes returns, so I have not guessed.

Size	Chest across	Shoulder	Sleeve	Back length
XXS	40	18	25	25
XS	42	18	25	25
S	44	19	25	26
M	46	20	26	27
L	48	20	27	27
XL	50	20.5	27	27.5
2XL	52	21.5	27	28
3XL	54	23	28	29