Wendy Mihm | Tuesday November 30, 2010
I have not had a leather jacket in five years.
The last one I had, I retired because it had that weird, plastic-y, cheap-leather-that-did-not-age-well look. It was about 8 years old and it was time for it to go anyway.
Since then, I have looked every season to find a new one, to no avail. They were all either too expensive or too cheap looking or too 18-year-oldish or too Harley-Davidson-ish.
But then the September 2010 Nordstrom catalog arrived and this gorgeous thing practically jumped off the page and hollered my name!
The price was just about what I had planned to spend, too. Ok, maybe a little more. So I tossed some fish crackers into baggies, my kids into the car and headed for a very rare excursion to Nordstrom. When I touched the leather, it was like butta, I tell you, BUTTA! I figured that I wear a leather jacket so often, and for so many years, that it was worth the expense. With a 4-year old and a toddler in tow, I had no time for deliberation…
The verdict? SPLURGE!
What do you think? Did I do the right thing?
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