There are several versions about the origin of the dewdrop, a cult garment. Not a few people claim a patent. Many people want to touch the glory that this jacket has won, which has become not just a reliable and convenient piece of clothing, but a real cult.
The scythe is a short leather jacket with a zipper diagonally and a narrow waist. The scythe is buttoned in the direction from the left thigh to the right shoulder. It is thanks to this original clasp that the cult item of clothing was given its name. Although the original title sounds like perfecto. Traditionally, people with unconventional outlook are wearing scales, differing in their freedom of views and principles of life. Until recently, seeing on the street a man in a leather jacket, a respectable citizen would try to stay away from the suspicious person in bandit clothes.
What is the actual history of the appearance of a duck - a cult garment? The time of its appearance is the Civil War in America between the North and the South. Only at that time it was a military uniform, and not a jacket. This uniform had the same original diagonal clasp.
In fifty years, the uniform was shortened to the level of a jacket. And since in the beginning of the twentieth century there was a general enthusiasm for aviation, the jacket began to be made of their skins. Already at that time it became a garment worn by all - Americans, French, English, Russian. There is a version that a Russian pilot during the Russo-Japanese war came up with a scythe.
With the end of World War II, the era of aviators did not end. But thousands of pilots were left without work. Their lot was the entertainment of the idle public, the so-called aviatorial theater. Now they saw civilians see the scythe, but it did not enter into fashion.
Only motorcyclists took the scythe into service. In the twenties, they were no less popular than aviators. It was motorcyclists who finally finalized this iconic piece of clothing. This modernization is attributed to businessman-motorcyclist Irving Schott. According to legend, it was he who in 1928 began selling a scythe in New York for five and a half dollars.
During the Second World War, the duck was the official uniform of the American bomber pilots. After the war, they did not want to part with the scythe. They moved to bikes, and the popularization of this garment began. But in the early fifties, the scythe was introduced as an element of the overalls of policemen. Naturally, bikers and those who joined them were very unhappy.
But all the same, the scab was simply a piece of clothing, reliable, comfortable, but not cultic. But all of a sudden it turned over, the dowel became a cult item of clothing only after it was put on by an equally cultured person - Elvis Presley. At the beginning of his activity he was satisfied with simple budget jackets. But after the creativity began to bring him significant income, Presley began to order an individual tailoring of scythe. For the manufacture of jackets for the singer used only expensive leather, often the dewdrops were decorated with real precious stones. Another person is credited with the invention of rivets. Today they use metal for them, but Elvis made gold rivets.
Thanks to Elvis Presley, the crochet became a cult garment, but almost lost its brutality, becoming only a stage costume. Bright, exotic.
The rebellious spirit of the scythe came back to her in the seventies. This is the merit of the English. Or rather the leader of the group Sex Pistols Malcolm McLaren. The motto of the group's participants was No Future, their clothing is a black leather jacket with large English pins and metal rivets. Since that time, the scythe has become a symbol of rockers, punks, metalworkers. This thing is worn by rockabilly singers and even folk. In general, the crochet, a cult item of clothing, has become a sign of informality.
Today, many venerable couturiers and famous fashion houses include this cult garment in their collections. Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Brioni. But Harley Davidson has become not just clothes, but a style of life.
Today, not just brutal men, but also feminine socialite lions are wearing a scythe. On their fragile shoulders, the leather jacket looks very attractive.