Leather Jackets - Spring for a Funky New Look This Easter!

A leather jacket is a leather jacket, correct? Wrong! Last season they hit the catwalks in a major way, taking the style world by storm. And they're equally as big for spring and summer 2011, proving that a leather jacket is for any season. Not only winter.

Women's leather jackets have been through a revolution recently. Rather than the same outdated item, in regulation brown or black, tyou will find a multitude of impressive styles, looks, colours, shapes and feels. Leather isn't just robust, although if you need something to last a lifetime there are good quality jackets in amazingly tough and resilient leather to take you through another few decades without a problem. Men's leather jackets have also been revolutionised, taking things to another level. Traditional styling mixes and matches with contemporary classics and fresh new ideas to deliver a bigger and far better choice than ever before. And men are sporting colour too. Bold colour. BIG colour!
 
While you can discover something extra-special, you could be the kind of person who enjoys gilding the fashion lily. If so, take Gok Wan as your inspiration. You can find ample outstanding bargains online, with leather jacket discounts and sale bargains easy to uncover. After you have found the primary style and colour that suits your body shape and colouring, the world is your leather jacket oyster!

Take a trip to your local hardware retailer or B&Q and you can find a compelling new world of accessories and decorative materials. Shoulder pads are big right now, the bigger and wilder the better. Create your personal catwalk classic for 2011 by collecting a handful of different sized and shaped brass or chrome screws, washers, fixtures and fittings, and wire them together with brass picture wire to create completely unique hard-core heavy metal shoulder pads.

Your local craft shop can also provide an absolute Aladdin's cave of inspiration. You can find ready-to-stick pearls, beads and flower motifs for the feminine touch. Metal beads, studs and leather fringe by the metre for the wild west image. Your town may even have a specialist leather shop, where you are able to buy all manner of inspiring bits and bobs to help your creative juices flow.

You can decorate your lapels with faux jewels, simply glued on. Or spice up the back panel of your jacket with oil paints or even DIY spray paint graffiti, Banksy-style, if you are artistic enough. Use Tulip or Pebeo craft paints to draw stunning, funky, vibrant 3d designs by hand, or to a template. The potential is limitless. Furthermore, as there are plenty of incredible cut price leather jackets deals around, experimenting need not cost you an arm and a leg.