What do Neil Young, Clark Gable, Andy Devine, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, Geena Davis and Jay Lenoall have in common? The jacket on their back. The leather jacket. Benicio Del Toro owns 5 or 6. Those ...

, the homegrown maker of motorcycle apparel operating in a low-rider building on Southeast Division Street. Over by the worktables, a crew from a Swedish high-fashion television program, is ...

2443 SE Division St., 503-235-0959, langlitz.com. Closed Saturday-Sunday. Founded by motorcycle racer Ross Langlitz in 1947, not much has changed in this custom leather shop and shrine to motorcycle ...

Family-owned Langlitz Leathers keeps a low profile in its retail and production shop in southeast Portland. For more than 60 years it has constructed high-end custom biker apparel that has attracted a ...

(The catalog still refers to leather lining as a “gun pocket.”) Langlitz Leathers moved to its current location on Southeast Division Street in Portland in 1972. Langlitz retired in 1982 and died a ...

Langlitz jackets are still made by hand and sold exactly the same way they were when the company was founded by Ross Langlitz in 1947. It doesn’t advertise, and the garments carry no external branding ...