Himel's Histories: The Cossack Jacket
In this new ongoing educational feature, we're exposing a little more of David Himel's encyclopedic knowledge of leather jackets. First up: the Cossack jacket, familiar to Himel fans through our Heron A-1 jacket.
Although the basic style (leather waistband, waist length cut, leather collar) had been around for several years at this point, around 1930-1931, advertisements were run "introducing" the name "Cossack jacket" to go with this style. The precise definition of the name would get muddier as the 1930s progressed, with manufacturers using it to describe a number of different waist length styles.
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