Bought a new leather jacket to replace an old one with a hole in it.
My zipper broke during the last storm. Fugly storm!
I am still looking for a light leather jacket, like the one that gave up.
(BTW, taking it to a local tailor, I found that replacing the zipper costs more than the jacket cost me in the first place. Really? yeah!)
If it's a jacket you like, it might be worth it anyway.
That is exactly why I still have it. I do like it. It IS leather! Fixing old leather makes more sense than killing again just for a new jacket.
for thinking of the original owner
I have a leather jacket. it's a leather parka
. i was looking for something really, really warm for the Winter, and i went everwhere looking for a proper parka, but parkas had becomme fashionable, so they were all fashion tat that would fall to bits in five minutes, besides having the pockets in the wrong places or
fake pockets and other outrages. I'd actually settled for one of those, the previous year and literally wore it to rags before the winter was halfway done.
But this year, i'd got a benefits backpayent and i was bloody determined to get a decent coat this year. It was number one priority. i spotted this one in a leather specialist shop. It was not only a proper parka, well made with a thick fleece lining, it was a man's extra large parka, with room for several layers of jumpers underneath, besides myself. It was love at first sight. And it was in their sale too, which meant that my last £200 was enough to buy it. My biggest ever outlay on an item of clothing.
The only problem was the zip. I instantly spotted that it didn't have the proper thick chunky zip that any coat of mine must have, or else i get it stuck, get it warped and evventually mangle it, sometimes with self trapped inside garment. (Had to cut myself out of a jacket once) So I asked if they could change the zip, and they did, at a fraction of the cost of the jacket.
That was a few years ago, and it's still pretty much good as new, despite being worn near-constantly in half-cold weather. I'm impressed with my own good sense in investing that money in something that turns out to be bargain (considering usage) compared with other coats I've had.
And I'm soooo glad I had that money at the right time.
