What Can You Tell Me About Dur-O-Jac ?
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The Dur-O-Jac Label is indeed our label and were manufactured by Schott. In the mid to late 1980's. A Fashion trend started in the Motorcycle and A/2 Flight jackets. These styles were the "look" and "fad" of the fashion line. The markets were flooded by look a likes of these styles and were mostly imported jackets. We wanted to offer consumers a jacket made in the USA at a better price point but still of the high quality standards of our jackets.
As you may know our company was the first company to design and manufacture a motorcycle jacket, we also supplied flight jackets and peacoats to the military during WWII. We wanted to offer consumers jackets made in the US with authentic styling, and high quality workmanship at a better price point. In order to achieve this goal we created the Dur-o Jac line of jackets. These jackets were manufactured to all our standards, the difference was the grade of leather used. The leather used in our "Perfecto" motorcycle jackets and Schott Flight jackets must be grade A, which means the leather is very clean, no scarring or tick marks in the hide. Leather that has scarring or tick marks must be tanned differently to hide these imperfections. This is usually done by imprinting the leather with a leather print to eliminate the imperfections, which lessened the cost of the leather. This leather still maintained the same durability, thickness and weight of the grade A leather. Since you have seen these jackets after 20 years of last being made speaks words of volume for the quality of a Schott jacket.
https://www.schottnyc.com/forum/posts/durojac_jackets_by_schott.htm
The Dur-O-Jac Label is indeed our label and were manufactured by Schott. In the mid to late 1980's. A Fashion trend started in the Motorcycle and A/2 Flight jackets. These styles were the "look" and "fad" of the fashion line. The markets were flooded by look a likes of these styles and were mostly imported jackets. We wanted to offer consumers a jacket made in the USA at a better price point but still of the high quality standards of our jackets.
As you may know our company was the first company to design and manufacture a motorcycle jacket, we also supplied flight jackets and peacoats to the military during WWII. We wanted to offer consumers jackets made in the US with authentic styling, and high quality workmanship at a better price point. In order to achieve this goal we created the Dur-o Jac line of jackets. These jackets were manufactured to all our standards, the difference was the grade of leather used. The leather used in our "Perfecto" motorcycle jackets and Schott Flight jackets must be grade A, which means the leather is very clean, no scarring or tick marks in the hide. Leather that has scarring or tick marks must be tanned differently to hide these imperfections. This is usually done by imprinting the leather with a leather print to eliminate the imperfections, which lessened the cost of the leather. This leather still maintained the same durability, thickness and weight of the grade A leather. Since you have seen these jackets after 20 years of last being made speaks words of volume for the quality of a Schott jacket.
https://www.schottnyc.com/forum/posts/durojac_jackets_by_schott.htm
