Womens Blue Leather Biker Jacket

A blue leather jacket is the one you buy when you already own black. This is real sheepskin in a deep, saturated blue, with a band collar, quilted shoulder panels and a straight centre zip rather than the usual asymmetric one.

Blue is the smartest second leather jacket

Almost every woman who buys a second leather jacket buys black again, and then wonders why the two live in the same corner of the wardrobe. Blue is the colour that actually adds something. It works with grey, camel, cream, white and every wash of denim, and it reads as a deliberate choice rather than a default. What it will not do is sit quietly. If you want a jacket nobody notices, buy black.

The quilted shoulder is doing real work

Quilted panels at the shoulder came from motorcycle jackets, where padding sat over the point most likely to hit the ground. On a fashion jacket the padding is gone but the quilting stayed, and it earns its place visually. It breaks up what would otherwise be a large flat expanse of leather across the upper back, and it draws the eye up and out, which balances the hip.

Band collar instead of a lapel

This has a small stand collar with a snap tab rather than a fold back lapel. That single change makes the jacket considerably easier to wear. A lapel wants space and sits open across the chest. A band collar closes flat at the throat, sits neatly under a coat, and does not fight with a scarf or a shirt collar underneath.

Sheepskin and the semi aniline finish

Sheepskin sits between lambskin and goatskin in weight. It is soft and supple but has a bit more body than lambskin, so it holds the quilted panels without collapsing. Semi aniline means the hide is dyed through with a light pigment coat on top. You keep most of the natural grain and depth of colour, and you gain a little protection against marks. It is the finish worth paying for on a strong colour like this, because it stops the blue going patchy.

Specification table

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.

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