Give your leather jackets a vintage look
A shiny supple soft and good looking Leather jacket is an expression of style. They make you stand out. This is as opposed to new jackets or older leather jackets that have been in the closet for long. They tend to lack the charm and personality of epoch leather. This should not be the cause of alarm as it is possible to create a vintage soft supple look. All you need to do is exercise a little patience.
You also need a few things; patches of vintage though this can be optional, cotton or leather letters, cotton or leather numbers, a wire brush and a sand paper that has been fine grained.
First and foremost you need to buy a jacket resembling the look of popular styles of vintage. For instance Dean James’ red Jacket was cropped and zipped up to the front side. Then we have the Mandarin collar which is the trendy A-2 military jacket of the 1930s and the 1940s. They were almost similar to current biker jackets having a zip to the sides and large collars having snaps on their edges.
You can embellish the leather jackets if you like. Then you can add patches of vintage, alternatively you can sew the cotton lettering or numbering using the hand. This gives your leather jacket a look of its own. Places your leather jacket a cut above the rest. It becomes one of a kind. To create a unified look, embellishments should be added before the leather is distressed so that everything ages in a similar way.
The next step entails soaking and soaping the leather jacket. Submerge the leather jackets in the sink or bathtub. Using the amount recommended on the container, add saddle soap. Then agitate the jacket by rolling and twisting it until it is covered thoroughly. Saddle soap helps soften the leather. The leather jacket should not even be rinsed as the saddle soap works well when left on.
Next is preparation of the jacket for distress. The jacket should be removed from the water and then laid flat and dried with a hairdryer on a low medium setting. This begins the process of aging, thus giving the leather a distressed crackled look. To loosen the surface of the leather, drag the wire brush across the whole surface.
After it has dried, the leather jackets should be sand in selected areas. For example the elbows, pockets and sides of the jacket. Using very fine sand paper sand these areas in a circular motion. And there you are, you have a vintage looking leather jacket!
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