I agree, I've never taken to leather jackets and maybe its because I had a particularly vile neo-nazi sympathizer as a maths teacher who insisted on wearing one in all of his lessons, inbetween lunch sessions down at the local boozer. I'm a big fan of Buzz Ricksons and Eastman Leather too, but never touch any of their leather jackets.

I have 4, including black and brown soft nappa leather bomber jackets that I wear on aircraft with zippered pockets that I put stuff in when going through security. On the plane, I just roll them up and stick them under the seat. They come to no harm and as long as you stick them on a proper hanger after the flight they regain perfect shape the way good shoes do after they've been on the right shoe trees for a couple of days.

I might be stepping into a massive generalisation but I can't think of leather being used much in British clothing apart from accessories. You just don't think of leather jackets when you think UK, but with the US you do, and Spain and Italy. A touch of the Jonny Foreigner about them?

It would be a patchwork jacket if it was made from cordovan, the part of the hide that makes cordovan is quite small.

Yesterday we wandered into Lewis Leathers just off Tottenham Court Road where I tried on a few leather jackets. The quality v price compared very favourably with what I have seen elsewhere and the option for limited customising for £30 seemed very reasonable. But I couldn’t get excited about them. I still feel much the same about leather jackets as when I started this thread in 2012, perhaps more so. Happy to wear them on a motorcycle but other than that I just don’t feel right in a leather jacket.

I’ve still got a US made Schott G2 flight jacket that I bought in Boston about 15 years ago. It’s ideal for driving in our old SAAB with the roof down (fur collar attached) and having aged a bit it looks great, a lot better than most of the leather jackets I see in shops, but it it only comes out a couple of times a year. I should get rid of it really, but I know I would never get another one like it plus I have fond memories of buying it. Strangely, its a treasured item.

But there’s something about leather jackets that just doesn’t work for me, anyone feel the same, or differently?

The leather jacket can, under certain circumstances, be a source of wry amusement.
KingstonIan is perfectly correct.  The upper age limit is about twelve.

Pleased to say my remaining leather jacket, ( Redskins flight jacket), bought about 35 yrs ago, ( not worn for 15-20 yrs), recently sold on ebay after sitting on there for over 2 years, very nice jacket and of it's time but Kingston1an is 100% correct you can be too old to wear them, ( which I am, along with jeans),

I have a very tidy Golden Bear tan leather baseball jacket, am I too old for it - hmmm, dunno?

I think it still looks good, I only bought it during first lockdown - the full leather option is a rarity esp. on these shores. Worn it with trousers and denim (not chinos - wrong colour) and will try with my OG-107's when the weather picks up, with a sweat under neat etc.

I also have a black cafe racer one from many years ago, but that's just in storage - was going to sell it but it's a jacket I wore on a special night with the wife who didn't want me to get rid.

Leather jackets were for many years considered the height of cool by a large number of males, ranging from rockers and 50s fans to the fashion forward and gangsters. Now they generally look dated if not passé, although if the jacket is a good one then associations be damned I suppose. I never had one back then so I certainly won't start now.

The club was 'Cleopatra's' BTW (better known as 'Cleo's', formerly 'Clouds').  Some big names appeared there, including - local legend has it - Little Stevie Wonder.  It was a bit dismal and shabby by '76.  Yet, judging by a number of comments on FB, a lot of people have fond memories of it.

Strangely enough for a life long mod, I always had a sneaking admiration for the perfecto. Not so much on rockers/bikers, or even Brando - but it worked well as early British punk gear. And a bit later on when people were wearing them with one size too big, well worn big E Levi’s and DM shoes or converse. I think that was a fairly short lived thing and only worked for ‘the kids’. I couldn’t go anywhere near one as a fifty year old dad who doesn’t own a Harley

I have an unabated love of low, American culture: their music, movies from circa 1930 to 1949, Golden Age science fiction, comic-books, funny papers, even some of their (often atrocious) TV programmes.  This has been with me as long as I can remember and will never leave me.  I've just come back from the local Oxfam with a Bluegrass CD.  When I say 'their music' I don't include the appalling Guns N'Roses, being played inside the shop, but anything from New Orleans or Delta Blues to Del Shannon and Roy Orbison.
We were all aware of 'Mod' music by the mid-1970s.  Liked most of it.  But I probably heard 'Summertime Blues' being performed by The Who before Eddie Cochran.