If you’ve ever visited our humble little leather shop at 56 Chiltern Street, you’re unlikely to have been released without a cross-examination of your bag/coat/shoes/insert-beautiful-item-of-clothing-here in the distinctly charismatic Yorkshirian manner of our commander in chief, and in my opinion the most talented leather jacket tailor in London; Pauline Harris. Whether you have or have not…
Now that I’ve got your attention I’d like to take this opportunity to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about our alterations service and leather jacket alterations in London in general. It’s not particularly dangerous to be honest (unless we’re hungry and holding sharp things). That was a lie, for which I apologise, but you probably…
At the end of last year I got to know the new owners of the General Leather Company on Chiltern Street – now renamed Cromford Leather. This was exciting because they not only make leather and suede jackets on the premises, but undertake leather jacket alterations for brands and for private customers. I’ve wanted to…
We are far from the only ones who love the iconic leather jacket in the UK. However as much as we’d like to take credit for its inception, we as a nation cannot factually claim to have had a hand in it. We can however foster a quiet satisfaction over; in the creative and idiosyncratic…
With less than a week to go before the inauguration of Donald Trump (unfortunately this won’t be one of those articles…we’ll talk to you in the shop about that…) we thought it would be apt to document some of the best leather jackets of a real leather jacket icon; President Barack Obama. Obama in his eight…