These Men Can’t Get Enough Leather
The New York Times
A younger generation discovers the appeal of wearing skins.
In March, Brandon Mahler took a pair of thrifted leather pants and spliced them into shorts. Holding the results, Mr. Mahler, a fashion consultant in New York, had to acknowledge that he’d crossed the line of sartorial sanity.
“When are you wearing leather shorts?” Mr. Mahler said, speaking with a Hyde-like clarity about this Jekyll-esque tailoring experiment. “They don’t make sense.”
On other leather items, Mr. Mahler, 33, doesn’t hesitate. He owns three pairs of leather pants, several leather jackets and a prized Zegna leather blazer that called out to him at a secondhand store like a lustrous needle in the cotton haystack.
“Maybe it’s this rebel bad boy thing,” he said of his tendency to dress like an oil slick.
Mr. Mahler typifies a cohort of men — often younger, yes, but also unbothered by the material’s many clichés — that have leaned into leather.
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