BOMBER JACKETS
Since the advent of aviation, pilots like Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart and airplane enthusiasts wore leather jackets for recreational flying. Just as the leather jacket was used functionally to block the wind on a motorcycle, bombers were used to keep aviators warm while flying at high altitudes in unheated cockpits. The styles were soon updated for military specifications such as the A-2 leather bomber jacket for the Army Air Corps (now US Air Force) and the G-1 leather flight jacket for the Navy Pilots (Now Navy, Marines and Coast Guard)