Leather jackets – Spring for a cool new look this Easter!

A leather jacket is a leather jacket, correct? Wrong! Last season they arrived at the designer catwalks big time, taking the style world by storm. And they're just as big for spring and summer 2011, confirming that a leather jacket is for any season. Not only winter.

Women's leather jackets have gone through a revolution lately. Rather than the same out of date item, in regulation black or brown, tyou can find a multitude of appealing styles, looks, colours, shapes and feels. Leather isn't just sturdy, although if you would like something to last a lifetime there are good quality jackets in incredibly resilient and tough leather to take you through another few decades without a problem. Men's leather jackets have also been revolutionised, taking things to a whole new level. Classic styling mixes and matches with contemporary classics and fresh new ideas to offer a bigger and much better choice than ever before. And men are wearing colour too. Bold colour. BIG colour!

Even though it's easy to find something extra-special, you may be the kind of person who loves gilding the style lily. If so, take Gok Wan as your inspiration. You can find plenty of superb promotions online, with leather jacket discounts and sale bargains simple to track down. Once you've identified the basic style and colour that fits your body shape and colouring, the world is your leather jacket oyster!

Take a trip to your nearest DIY shop or B&Q and you will find an intriguing new world of accessories and ornamental materials. Shoulder pads are big at the moment, the bigger and wilder the better. Make your personal catwalk classic for 2011 by collecting a bunch of different sized and shaped brass or chrome washers, screws, fixtures and fittings, and wire them together with metal picture wire to produce unique hard-core heavy metal shoulder pads.

Your local craft shop can also offer an total Aladdin's cave of inspiration. You'll find ready-to-stick pearls, beads and flower motifs for a feminine touch. Metal beads, studs and leather fringe by the metre for the wild west image. Your town may even have a specialist leather shop, where it is possible to buy all manner of exciting bits and bobs to help your creative juices flow.

You can decorate your lapels with faux jewels, simply glued on. Or embellish the back panel of your jacket with oil paints or even DIY spray paint graffiti, Banksy-style, if you are artistic enough. Use Tulip or Pebeo craft paints to draw stunning, funky, vivid three dimensional designs by hand, or to a template. The possibilities are limitless. Furthermore, as there are so many incredible cut price leather jackets deals around, experimentation need not cost you an arm and a leg.

On the hunt for the ideal leather jacket? You will find a fabulous range of women's leather jackets plus men's leather jackets at UK Leather Jackets, the UK online leather shop.