leather jacket
For awhile now, I’d been wanting a leather jacket. So when I went to H&M, to my delight, I saw it. On the hanger, it was seemingly perfect - leather, the perfect caramel brown, cropped, little pockets on the side. It looked like exactly what I wanted.
So I tried it on. It looked …just okay. A little snug. The color was good, but I wasn’t sure if it went with the rest of my wardrobe. But it met so many of my specifications - leather, brown, cropped, cute … so I bought it.
When I took it home, I tried it on again and I found that it didn’t fit quite right. On someone else, it probably would look fantastic. But not for me. And it didn’t go with the rest of my wardrobe. I tried to force something that wasn’t quite there, because I wanted a leather jacket - I wanted to believe that it would work.
I took it back for a refund the next day. I was just planning to return it. But on my way in i saw a different leather jacket. It wasn’t quite what I thought I wanted - it was a weird color in between black and brown and had a hood. Also, it was a few sizes bigger than I usually wore. But I tried it on anyway, just out of curiousity.
And … it looked fantastic. I wasn’t looking for it, and it didn’t quite meet what I thought I wanted, but it was really flattering. And I hate to toot my own horn, but I looked good in it. So I got bought it.
And now, two weeks later … my leather jacket and I couldn’t be happier. =)
