The Gods Of Retail Smiled On Me

[redbrunja]

I got a new leather jacket.

It's lovely. It's black and butter soft and has been distressed so that the seems are tinted with gold and I paid even less for it than I did for my last leather jacket, which I wore until I wore all the shine away.

To give you an idea of how long I've been looking, I bought my first leather jacket before freshmen year of highschool and by freshman year of college I knew I needed a new one. Four years later I finally found it.

Comments

[ivy-chan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Mmm, butter-soft leather.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's delicious.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! I've recently adopted my second coat; the first still suits me for day-to-day wear, but sometimes I need something shinier and softer.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's nice, isn't it?

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes. *cuddles*

Every so often, I'll read an article on how leather coats are evil and kill animals and it's as bad as fur and so forth, but thinking about it? Leather's just efficient. The animals you get leather from would be slaughtered for their meat anyway; it's just making use of inedible bits. Entirely different from animals raised for no purpose other than to skin 'em.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I eat steaks; I'm just making sure the whole animal is used.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Fur, I can kinda get the protests on . . . I generally believe that animals should be treated decently even if they're just being raised for slaughter; you get better quality meat that way, for one thing. The animals raised for fur . . . *shudders*