Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — Leather Coats. [ARTICLE]

Leather Coats.

Leather coats are made of sheepskin, of horselilde and of dogskin. They are lined with corduroy, with flannel and with sheep’s wool. The corduroy-lined coats are made reversible, so that they may be worn either side out. Tlie coats or sheepskin are usually finished black, the liorsehide and dogskin coats russet colored. A leather coat of sheepskiu, corduroy lined, costs about $5; horsehide coats sell for sl2 to sls, aud dogskin coats for $lB. Leather coats are worn in the West by truckmen and policemen und hunters and lumbermen. The leather coat is serviceable and warm, without great bulk. The duck shooter, lying, perhaps, for hours in a battery waiting, keeps warm in a leather coat. The sportsman after big game wears a leather coat. It keeps the wearer warm without impeding his movements. A leather coat is sometimes worn unilijr another coat for the sake of its warmth, as, perhaps, by a policeman. And the leather coat may be worn with the corduroy side out, so that more leather coats are worn here in eities than might be supposed.