I love it! No problem there. I mean I would love it if the arms weren't bothering me.
True, it's a bit of a stretch for me. Daughter says,"It's too tight and shiny." (Note, it's not as shiny IRL as in the pics.) Hubs says: "Talk about trying to look younger than you are..."
I take this to mean they are not thrilled with it.
But that doesn't bother me. They often say stuff like that at first when I try something new.
If I could figure out how to style it (a big "if" at this point!) it seems to me it would add some of the edge I would like.
Do I feel like I still want some simpler, more streamlined, avant-garde kinds of pieces. Absolutely. But they don't have to take the form of a leather jacket. At least not this year.
And two kinds of jacket (or, in my case, 20 kinds of jacket) can happily live in the same wardrobe. I think?
This jacket doesn't seem inconsistent with what I was talking about before - at least not to me. There's a lot more detailing, true - but it's a real classic that happens to incorporate a high collar, fitted waist, and strong asymmetrical lines -- all of which are super for me and feel completely, totally, easily "right."
Doesn't this fit in with the "urban" part of my various rubrics?
I'm curious as to why it doesn't seem to fit?