| The world of women's motorcycle jackets is growing. | | | | Of course, some women like their motorcycle |
| This may sound strange, but just think about it: not | | | | jackets to fit like that, and that is perfectly fine. |
| only is leather a classic, favorite fabric, but more and | | | | However, if specially if you are a woman who |
| more women are giving into the urge to wear it. | | | | actually does ride a motorcycle, there is a practical |
| Then, too, although you do not have to ride a | | | | reason to make sure your jacket fits properly. The |
| motorcycle to wear a biker jacket, there are a lot | | | | better it fits, the safer you will be if you and your |
| more women bikers out there, as well. Time was, of | | | | bike ever end up taking a fall. The whole reason |
| course, that a lot of them simply rode on the back | | | | those in the biker culture wear leather - coats, vests, |
| of their old man's bike. These days, however, the | | | | pants, and boots - is because it is a very durable |
| women are riding alongside their men, enjoying the | | | | material. It can protect you from the painful horror |
| rush of wind in their face and the unobstructed view. | | | | that is road rash. It keeps your skin from getting all |
| Over the years, leather jackets in general have | | | | torn up by the pavement. It also has the unique |
| become fashion legends in their own time. They are | | | | distinction of being able to keep you warm when it is |
| absolutely iconic, and most of us have either worn or | | | | cold and cool when it is warm. |
| at least wanted a leather jacket at some point or | | | | Anyway, the point is, these days, women's |
| another in our lives. Where once upon a time, most | | | | motorcycle jackets have, in certain styles, taken on a |
| leather coats were standard in color - either black, | | | | shape which is itself distinctively womanly. The waist |
| brown, or perhaps grey - you can now find them in a | | | | tapers in an almost hour glass way, so that it |
| veritable rainbow of different colors. Not only have | | | | conforms nicely to the torso. The arms are smaller as |
| motorcycle jackets in particular evolved, but women's | | | | well, not to mention shorter, so that the hems of the |
| motorcycle jackets in particular have undergone an | | | | sleeves fall where they are supposed to fall. Even |
| evolution over the years. For one thing, a lot of them | | | | the shoulders are designed to be smaller, so none of |
| are actually cut to fit a woman's body. Not so long | | | | the ladies out there wide up looking like they are |
| ago, whether the jacket was sleek or made of | | | | actually wearing football pads under their coats. That |
| suede, even the coats for the girls were rather bulky | | | | is definitely not the most flattering look - it was not |
| and shapeless. They made you look huge whether | | | | even flattering when shoulder pads were popular |
| you were or not. They looked, in short, like they | | | | back in the eighties! |
| were made for men. | | | | |