Leather Puffer Jackets
Men’s Black Handmade Sheepskin Leather Quilted Puffer Jacket
Women’s Brown Lambskin Leather Puffer Jacket
A leather puffer jacket is built the way any puffer is, quilted in channels and filled for warmth, with a leather shell where you would normally find nylon. The men’s black sheepskin puffer is channel quilted and filled, with a high stand collar, zipped hand pockets and elastic cuffs. The women’s brown lambskin puffer is cut short, with a stand collar and a zip hidden under a snap placket. Each one is made after you order, cut and stitched by hand.
Leather instead of nylon
Leather stops wind in a way a thin shell fabric does not, so a leather puffer runs warmer than its thickness suggests. It also holds its shape, because the quilted channels stay where they are stitched. The cost is weight, and you cannot squash one into a bag and forget about it.
Sheepskin and lambskin
Sheepskin has more body and takes a quilting stitch cleanly, which suits the channel quilting on the black sheepskin puffer. Lambskin is softer and lighter in the hand, and it suits a short cut like the brown lambskin puffer, where the leather has to bend at the waist. A filled leather shell of this kind is lighter than a shearling coat and warmer than a plain leather jacket of the same length, so it covers the weeks when a shearling is too much and a plain jacket is not enough.
Fit and sizing
Filling takes up room, so a puffer sits differently from a plain jacket in the same size. Measure your chest over the shirt or knit you expect to wear underneath and compare that with the size chart. Made to measure is free: fill in your measurements on the product page before you add the jacket to the cart and it is cut to them. Elastic cuffs keep warm air in, and on the brown lambskin puffer the hem is gathered on elastic as well.
How they are made
Nothing is quilted until the order comes in. Each jacket is made to order and stitched by hand over five to seven days, with YKK zips on the front and on the hand pockets where a style has them. Shipping is free worldwide, and a standard size can go back within 30 days, with return postage on you unless it arrives damaged. A jacket cut to your own measurements can only come back if it arrives damaged.
Nearby
For quilting on a jacket that is not built as a puffer, look at men’s quilted leather jackets. When it turns properly cold, the wool in men’s shearling jackets does more than filling can. If the short cut is what you want, women’s cropped leather jackets stop at about the same place.
