The other important part of a suit or jacket is the impact absorbing armor. Higher end suits today use €CE Approved€ hard plastic and/or multi-layored memory foam armor inserts at these impact areas. Utilizing hard armor and various types of foam and padding, creates an energy absorbing zone through out the suit, protecting the rider during heavy direct impact crashes.

Protection zones to look at include:

Shoulders
Elbows
Spine
Hips
Knees
Shins
Chest
Thighs

Alpinestars' higher ends suits, now offer exterior hard plastic protection in certain areas. This serves to protect the rider even more by putting the protection inserts as the first point of contact with the impact object.

The bare bones distinction between a high quality suit and low quality suit can be said to be the quality of the leather and the quality of the stitching. A high quality well-made suit can withstand the most brutal of slides and still stay together, protecting the riders skin. Lessor quality leather matched with poor stitching is what causes a suit to €blow up', or come apart on a rider during a crash. It takes a certain amount of skill, learned proprietary knowledge and craft to produce a suit will live up to the task.

Next to protection, what any suit or jacket spends most of its time doing is keeping you comfortable. Mainly, this means that the suit should fit you well, so that you will want to wear it. An overly heavy suit with no venting on a hot day, won't be your first choice when you go to suit up for a day's ride in the street. An overly uncomfortable suit will also have the affect of being a distraction to your riding when you are on the bike. You want your suit to fit as good as possible.

Sizing. Especially when ordering online, sizing questions are one of the first things on people's minds. As a retailer with both a web site and a retail showroom of our products, we don't necessarily recommend that that you go and try on a suit at your local dealer and buy the item from us. Kinda tacky and most motorcycle dealerships don't offer a wide variety of sizes in their showroom for you anyway. Leather Collection offers a free exchange policy on all of our suits, additionally we are offering Custom Made Suits (a suit that is tailored as per your body measurements to give you best fitting).

Sizing across all manufacturers varies. Some makers size their suits in US Sizes, others in European Sizes. The difference in numbers is that European sizes are 10 above US sizes. So, if you tend to wear a size 42 US jacket, you'd be a size 52 in European sizing.

As Sizing the most important to give you comfort as well as safety. Leather Suits Sizing is a complex process so we recommend all our customers to take a look on our Sizing Guide on our website on the link http://www.leathercollection.us/size-guide/

There are many things in a suit measurement that are important and must match your body measurements, the measurements are;

Height of Person
Waist Length
Sleeve Length
External Leg Length
Crotch to Ground
Chest Grith
Under Breast (for ladies only)
Waist Grith
Hips Grith