Jacket Collecting - Ever ask why?

[TLW '90]

If you really like crosszip then you would apply your wool plaid jacket thirst to crosszip, you would see all the differences and find excusses why you need another.

You only need 1 crosszip if you don't actually like it as an object but somehow you find yourself looking good wearing it.
I feel exactly that way, i hate everything about asymetrical details, I like center zip with 2 chest pockets like truckers or cafe racers, however... no truckers nor racers could make me look cooler than me in a cross zip.. so i got to tolerate it and just accept the fact.

I'm not really sure if the cross zip style is for me, not something I'm particularly interested in nor a style I'm really after.
There's a lot of jacket types I enjoy looking at but might not actually want to own and wear.
When it comes to wool I tend to prefer longer bodied types to keep my rear end warm when I'm walking the dog or out exploring and plinking in the dry creekbed, so I need to dip my toes in the water of waist length wool jackets first.

 

[BB1239]

So I purchased a jacket today. Shocking...right? To probably nobody on this forum who has been around any length of time.
What did I buy? Well just another black cross-zip, made of leather, that likely will fit pretty well. Was a decent deal.

No big deal right - well that's what I thought, until I drove home from the gym this evening, and just very frankly asked myself "Dude, why did you do it...?" "What deficiency within yourself are you seeking to fill, by adding yet another cross-zip to your 7-8 jacket cross-zip collection?" "Is there some deeper underlying reason you are seeking to own this?" "Or are you just having flashbacks to some other time in life and feeling the need to keep searching out the perfect jacket...and something else?" Like I said this was quite a conversation I was having in my own mind.

After all this, I realized, yes, I may need to be a little more balanced. There may be a few more jackets showing up in the classifieds soon. However I do not think the purchase had anything to do with insecurity, or an inflated sense of self, or image management. In fact, I just wanted to check it out here. If it does not work out, I will sell it along. Not an issue.

Still that gnawing little voice keeps coming along. Maybe I have more to think about here!

Anyone else ever deal with this...?

I feel like I'm already dealing with that and I'm sure I have less jackets. For me, it seems jackets are like most other products out there...there are a lot of "almosts". Very good for this, but not for that. If I had knowledge and access, maybe if I designed my own jacket I'd be perfectly happy with it. Probably not though, I'd likely F that up too Just seems once we get interested in leather for leather sake, the search quenches the longing for a while, but the process must continue. Certainly none of us are addicted. Nah. Lol.

 

[BB1239]

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I went the Leather Route as I wanted something "different" than the milk toast Vanilla outerwear I saw around me at my job. I worked 32 years for the State of New York in it's capital Albany. In the early 80's the place was chock -a - block full of men in grey flannel suits with grey flannel brains. I was/am.... different. I was a veteran who, sang and played bass guitar in RnB bands in local dens of iniquity. I'd been playing for pay off and on since Nixon was President. My clothing was another way for me to inform them, quietly, that my life was and never would be their life. Some people assume that their way of life is the ONLY way of life and make assumptions. A leather jacket thick enough to stop a knife or a .22 is another way.

Now I'm retired, but the jackets aren't.

Worf

Great looking jacket! That's a good look for sure. Looks tough and yet sophisticated.