{"id":87,"date":"2012-02-12T17:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lewisleathers.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/12\/western-jacket-no-988\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:35:32","slug":"western-jacket-no-988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lewisleathers.com\/blog\/western-jacket-no-988\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Jacket No. 988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western was a nice addition to the line of casual jackets and clothing which Lewis Leathers offered during the 1960&#8217;s. Even young motorcycle riders spent some time away from their machines, perhaps to attend a race or go to a dance with their favouritie girl, in this case their riding jacket may have stayed in the garage with the bike and its owner hit the town in something a bit smarter. Lewis Leathers had this covered with its BIG L range, this included casual footwear, Levi&#8217;s jeans (imported by LL from the USA before they were properly distributed in the UK), shirts, (polo and collared) leather waistcoats, 3 button jackets and more. The Western made its debut in the summer of 1968.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lewis Leathers, Western Jacket\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2012 Blogs\/Feb 2012\/Western main.jpg\" alt=\"Western jacket, Aviakit\" width=\"680\" height=\"1019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above, the Western jacket in our finest cowhide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aviakit Western jacket back\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2012 Blogs\/Feb 2012\/Western back(1).jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Leathers Western jacket\" width=\"680\" height=\"1019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aviakit Western Jacket back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Vintage Western Jacket, Aviakit\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2012 Blogs\/Feb 2012\/Western vintage(1).jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Western jacket, Lewis Leathers\" width=\"680\" height=\"1019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above is a vintage Western jacket made from sheepskin, it was also available in cowhide and we still offer both types of leather today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lewis Leathers Western jacket\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2012 Blogs\/Feb 2012\/Western details.jpg\" alt=\"Western jacket details\" width=\"680\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top, details from a new jacket and bottom close &#8211; ups from our vintage jacket, we still make it in the same way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"59 Club Link magazine, Lewis Leathers Western jacket\" src=\"\/assets\/images\/blog\/2012 Blogs\/Feb 2012\/Western Link copy.jpg\" alt=\"Link mag\" width=\"680\" height=\"1019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above image comes courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the59club.org.uk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">59 Club&#8217;s<\/a> LINK! magazine, dated Winter 1968, young member Jill Hargreaves wears the jacket in a review written by Editor Mike Evans. The other images are clipped from Lewis Leathers catalogues 1972 on the left and 1968 centre.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the Western jacket at the Lewis Leathers <a href=\"productinfo.html?code=988%20Western%20Jkt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">online store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Leathers Western jacket is back again at last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jackets","category-products"],"yoast_head":"<title>Western Jacket No. 988 - Lewis Leathers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lewisleathers.com\/blog\/western-jacket-no-988\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Western Jacket No. 988 - 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