How to Wear a Leather Jacket

I love the right leather jacket. It could be short and fitted, long and lean, military style, purple, black, burnt sienna…there are so many to choose from that can flatter, but there are just as many that look incredibly out dated. Your leather must be up-to-date in style, other wise you’ll look like a wannabe.

Now with the colder weather the opportunity to wear a leather jacket without sweating like a pig has arrived. However, colder weather also brings the chance of rain and snow that can damage both real and fake leather.

Solution? The minute you get your leather jacket spritz it with the protective spray I am always talking about, available at Target. Then judge weather before you don your jacket.

What does a leather jacket go with? Anything from jeans and skirts to slacks and dresses. Just don’t wear it with other leather pieces. Your shoes are the exception. I would even prefer a non-leather purse when sporting a leather jacket.

Now for the men, you can rock the leather too, but stick to the shorter jackets, like the one here from Kenneth Cole. When I see a man in a long leather jacket I start thinking cereal killer or Russian spy.