The Black Leather Jacket
by Mick Farrenliterary work· published 1985
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The Black Leather Jacket is a book written by English journalist and author Mick Farren published in 1985. The book chronicles the history of the black leather jacket over a seventy-year span up to the mid-1980s, taking in all aspects of its social, cultural and political impact. In the introduction, Farren says: "The black leather jacket has always been the uniform of the bad. Hitler's Gestapo, the Hell's Angels, the Black Panthers, punk rockers, gay bar cruisers, rock 'n' roll animals and the hardcore mutations of the eighties all adopted it as their own." Initial prints of the book came in leather effect cover. The paperback version had a studio still of Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
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The Black Leather Jacket was adapted into a 1989 film.
Black Leather Jacket1989 · film · dir. Nick Mead · IMDb ↗IMDb6.9Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings through to it's 'bad boy' reputation and considers whether it has now become emasculated by pop culture.
