For the biker in you

Ever been to a biker meet? It’s never a simple ride out, is it? You need to dress up for it, because if you don’t, you will feel more out of place than if you were dressed up as Rudolph at a black-tie event. The thing is, and there are many who will vehemently deny this, but bikers love their look. There, I said it. That brings me to the question… what exactly is this “Biker Look”?  At the dawn of motorcycling there was no such thing as a “Biker Look.” People wore regular clothes and rode around. The original “Biker Look” began to be curated in the aftermath of the Second World War and had a lot to do with changing lifestyles. Although today you might associate leather jackets and motorcycles with the very American Harley-Davidson, fact of the matter is that the stylization of the motorcyclist started in Great Britain. Three things led to this stylization that would eventually lead to what we know as the “Biker Look.”  At the end of WWII, the heart of the motorcycling world lay in the UK with great names such as Norton, Triumph, BSA, Ariel, Vincent and others dominating the two-wheeler