2nd jacket psychology

[Bigbenbs]

Just passed through an interesting period after purchasing and deciding to keep a second jacket. I started to love the heaviness and fitted cut of my new Aero Daytona so much that when I put on my Hooch Hauler it started to just feel light and loose fitting. I even found myself almost not wanting to wear to HH any more.

So I was thinking, this is how it begins, this is how people end up selling jackets that they love not but a few months after they get them.

I decided to not let myself get fixated on it, though. Then tonight I was heading out and was going somewhere where I would have felt a bit self conscious walking in with my big, shiny MC jacket. Also it was cold and I couldn't very well layer under the Daytona because it was so closely fitted. So there was the Hooch Hauler and it was just perfect with a sweater and a bit more of a classy atmosphere.

So now I'm in love with the Hooch Hauler again. But I found it interesting to see how I had to rediscover a jacket I already loved after getting another I loved. It's kind of like the Daytona filled some of the space that the HH was filling, and then I couldn't stop thinking about all the ways the HH couldn't fill the same space as the Daytona. Then only after I was getting a bit more used to the Daytona and found a place it couldn't fill did I start to really appreciate again the wonderfulness of my first jacket.

Anyway, this may all seem like bush league psychological swirling to you more experienced blokes. But it was an interesting experience for me, and one I was encouraged to find resolved itself quite happily in the end.

 

[Carlos840]

Two jackets is all fun and games!
Wait till you have 5, and you start telling yourself "that's it, no more" and then suddenly you have 10, and you think "that's it, really, no more"... And then one day you have 16, no more room in the closet, a few of them now live full time on you couch...
But still you rationalise them, they are all different, they all fill a different spaces... and it goes on, and on, and on, and before you know it you are @tmitchell59 or @Mysteryo.
I never thought i would get there, but as time passes it doesn't seem as silly as it once did.

Edit: There is never a wrong time for a big shinny MC jacket!

 

[Superfluous]

Welcome to The TFL Effect

 

[Guppy]

I don't know how many jackets I have offhand, but my spreadsheet does... I think I have 12 or 13 for sale at the moment... so... yeah...

 

[Peacoat]

I never sell any of them for the reason you mentioned. They all fill a need, or at least a perceived need.

 

[navetsea]

of course if you have a new one you would be wearing it all the time for the first few weeks or months and you might feel you won't miss the others, then you'll get over it and all felt equally nice again and you will find a matching set of clothing ideas to pair with each of them

 

[ton312]

I am not surprised you found yourself left wanting nothing else after the storse Daytona. That hide makes you wonder doesn't it? I too tried the vic and was left (quite quickly) wanting to go back. It's good that you found a suitable occasion for both. As far as a shiny m/c jacket goes you have to decide if you can own it. If you can, there's not much reason for anything else. After countless bootleggers and halfbelts, cafe racers...what have you...I'm finally comfortable just going balls to the wall and FTW. In a nice way. Just avoid the bedazzled cowboy. That dog won't hunt.

 

[Hh121]

I found myself became more and more obsessed with MC jacket, the civilian design is boring for me now.

 

[red devil]

The occasions and needs are endless, you can never have enough jackets, it's that simple.

 

[Monitor]

I found myself became more and more obsessed with MC jacket, the civilian design is boring for me now.

And you're absolutely right about that. The civilian designs are yawnfest. Cross zips are the best and finest, followed by cafe racers and then trucker jackets which are civilan designs to be honest but they're still cool.