{"id":9530,"date":"2020-08-31T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:25","slug":"bench-leather-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/bench-leather-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench Leather Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/fall1987\/BRFAll1987004.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Fall 1987<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This jacket reminds me of the On-The Road jacket a little It has the same leather cuff protectors and light coloring. I also like the lining very much. A handsome jacket only offered in Fall and Christmas 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the catalogue: &#8220;Once upon a time, in a humble saddler\u2019s shop, there was a lambskin covering on a worktable, and every day this lambskin cover was smoothed and stretched as the saddler worked his fine leathers upon it. One day we happened along and noticed that the lowly \u201cbench leather\u201d had tempered to a patina far surpassing that of the skins it was meant to protect. And so we took this supremely malleable leather off the bench and gave it its chance to shine, in a jacket that\u2019s all the great leather jackets you ever wanted. The style is simple and classic because the leather is special enough. 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I also like the lining very much. A handsome jacket only offered in Fall and Christmas 1987. From the catalogue: &#8220;Once upon a time, in a humble saddler\u2019s shop, there was a lambskin covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1440,1424],"tags":[1448],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9541,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}