Mens Leather Trucker Jacket

A leather trucker jacket is a denim jacket silhouette made in leather: a button front, a pointed yoke seam across the chest, two flap chest pockets and a cropped waist length body. It has no zip, which is the defining difference from a bomber or a moto. This one is full grain cowhide with antique brass buttons, in brown or black, sizes XXS to 3XL.

It is a denim jacket that happens to be leather, and that is the entire idea

Most leather jackets descend from motorcycling. This one does not. The trucker comes from American workwear. It is the jacket that farm hands, rail workers and mechanics wore over everything from the 1960s onward, and every detail on it is there for a reason. The pointed yoke seams across the chest let the shoulders move. The chest flap pockets sit high so they stay usable when you are bent over. The body is cropped so it does not ride up when you sit down or catch on anything. Building it in leather changes what it means without changing what it does. You get the same easy familiar shape, the shape everybody already owns in denim, but it lasts decades instead of years and it reads as considerably more deliberate. That is worth saying plainly because it is the reason to buy this over another leather jacket. A biker jacket announces itself. A cafe racer is quiet but still clearly a leather jacket. A leather trucker just looks like a jacket, until somebody gets close enough to notice it is not denim.

Buttons instead of a zip, and there is a genuine trade off

No zip. That is not a cost decision, it is what makes it a trucker. The upside is that buttons look right on this shape and they age well. Antique brass darkens in step with the leather instead of staying bright and plastic looking, and there is no zip to fail, which is the single most common thing that kills a leather jacket. The downside is real and you should know it before you buy. Buttons are slower to fasten than a zip. More importantly, a buttoned front lets wind through the gaps between buttons in a way a zip does not. This is a jacket for spring and autumn and for cool dry evenings. In genuine cold you will want something zipped.

Cowhide is the right hide for this shape, and lambskin would be wrong

This one is worth explaining because most people choose leather by feel in the shop and cowhide loses that comparison every time. Lambskin is thinner and softer and feels expensive immediately. On a trucker it would be a mistake. The shape depends on flat panels holding their line: the yoke seam has to sit crisply across the chest, the pocket flaps have to lie flat, the hem has to hold straight. Lambskin drapes, which means it collapses, and a trucker made in it looks like a leather shirt that has given up. Cowhide is thicker and stiffer out of the box and holds every one of those lines. Full grain means the outer surface of the hide has been left intact rather than sanded to hide flaws, so it takes a patina at the elbows and cuffs over years instead of wearing through. The tradeoff is that it needs a season to break in. The first few weeks it will feel like armour. That is normal and it is what you are paying for.

Fit, which differs from denim in one important way

Take your usual size, and then read the next paragraph before you order. A denim trucker that fits snug will relax within a month, because denim gives. Leather does not, or at least nowhere near as much. So the rule you have learned from denim jackets, buy it tight and let it stretch, is wrong here. Buy it fitting. It should sit at your waist or just below with the sleeves ending at the wrist bone. A trucker cut long stops looking like a trucker. You can wear a tee or a light knit under it comfortably. A flannel shirt or a midweight jumper needs a size up, and it is worth deciding now which of those you want, because it changes which size you order.

Care

Condition every three to six months. Cowhide takes conditioner well and rewards it. Wipe rain off with a dry cloth and let it dry at room temperature. Never near a radiator, because heat pulls the moisture out of the hide too quickly and leaves it stiff and prone to cracking. Do not polish the brass. The buttons are meant to darken with the leather, and stripping them back to bright brass makes the jacket look mismatched. Store on a broad hanger with air around it, out of direct light, never sealed in plastic.

Specification table

Specification	Detail
Outer material	Genuine leather,
Lining	Quilted polyester, full body and sleeves
Closure	Button
Collar	Shirt collar, unstudded
Cuffs	Button
External pockets	Two flap pockets and two hand warmer pockets at the waist
Internal pockets	Two inside
Back detail	Adjustable buckle straps, action pleats
Colour	Distressed Brown or Black
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