Some scholars believe that in some instances this item of apparel was “a kind of leather apron.”19

He is always dressed in red pants and a leather apron, and always goes everywhere with her big hammer.

Simply put, the speculative Freemasons were attempting “to imitate the operative masons” by borrowing the white leather apron from them.76

September 9, 1888 -- Miss Lyons claims to have had a drink with a man she suspected to be 'Leather Apron' at the Queen's Head pub.

It was signed “Jack the Ripper,” a name so perfectly fitting (he’d been known as “Leather Apron” until then) that it stuck for all time.