1930s Howard Jacket - Silky Black
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Description
The Howard Jacket is an exceptional leather that Black Sign have cooked up for Fall/Winter 2025. It takes inspiration from aviator-style jackets and leatherwear of the 1930s, with a two-texture body that combines tanned horsehide and horsehair-on-hide, as well as complex patterning and tailoring throughout. It features a really unique asymmetrical placket that can be unbuttoned into exaggerated lapels, or sealed closed for maximum warmth and protection.
The horsehide leather used for the body is sourced from Italy and re-finished in Japan. Brought overseas as vegetable-tanned horsehide, it is then re-oiled before having a surface dye applied, resulting in a beautiful tea-core leather that will only get better and better with time. It's complimented further with tonal black horsehair-on-hide, sourced from specific tanneries in France and Poland and selected for consistency in color and length, it's a glossy and surprisingly soft contrast to the smooth leather on the rest of the jacket.
In terms of details, it has a lot of them. First worth mentioning is the lining, which is a tweedy melton wool blend fabric with a rich crimson-red finish, a warm and comfortable choice that provides a subtle flash of contrast if spotted. The "default" buttons are flat tonal coat buttons, but every jacket comes with a full set of leather-wrapped dome buttons, which a tailor can swap out for you in exchange for some amount of your local currency (this is traditionally how one persuades a tailor to alter their clothing). It's also got two bucket pockets on the front, two adjuster tabs with buckles on the back, and a large inverse box pleat cut into the back for extra ease of motion.
Fits true to size. Do not wash or dry.
- Two-tone horsehide / hair-on-hide body
- Vegetable-tanned Italian tea-core horsehide leather
- Black horsehair-on-hide from Europe
- Melton wool blend lining
- Asymmetrical placket with large lapels
- Two bucket pockets on the front
- Large inverted box pleat back design
- Two buckle adjusters on back torso
- Button cuffs and placket
- Comes with additional buttons
- True to size
- Cropped fit
- Custom woven labels
- Do not wash or dry
- Made in Japan
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1930s Howard Jacket - Silky Black
Size Guide
All measurements are in inches.
Model Gen wears a size 40.
Their sizing specs are:
6'1" and 180lbs
41" chest and 32" waist
Fits true to size. Do not wash or dry.
| Size | Front Length | Shoulder | Chest | Sleeve Length |
| 38 | 25.25" | 16.75" | 40" | 23.25" |
| 40 | 26" | 17.5" | 42" | 24.5" |
| 42 | 27" | 18" | 43" | 25" |
| 44 | 27.5" | 18.5" | 45" | 25.75" |
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