How do you know when a jacket is broken in?

[Bfd70]

Another resurrection award.
Post a pic in the wjaywt today thread. The group will let you know

 

[El Marro]

I always chuckle when I see a thread revived from way back when but it also makes me happy. Reading posts from Atticus Finch, Sloan, rocketeer, and others who were once the regular crowd around these parts brings back good memories.

 

[jchance]

New answers to an old question that could benefit new members who research the forum and read old thread. OP is still around after a dozen of years, maybe her/his jacket has already been broken in with wear and the question is now moot. Maybe OP can chime in and answer her/his own question now.

 

[LordOfLeather]

Since this ancient post has been revived, I'll add my two cents. For me, broken in has to do with the comfort and wearability of the jacket, and little to do with appearances. I've had broken in jackets that still look shiny. I've also had jackets with visible "character" that still were stiff and not fully broken in. It's broken in when I feels molded to my body and comfortable (assuming it fits well), instead of fighting my movements.

Tanning and finishing process is a factor not mentioned enough. My first Thedi was goatskin that had gone through the wash processes. My experience with goat (and the opinions on TFL) had set my expectations up for an easy break-in process. I was surprised by how stiff and hard to the touch it was, and it took a considerable amount of time to feel soft and broken in. More than some cow and HH jackets I've owned.

 

[jchance]

^ same experience but with horsehide. From what I’ve read, I thought horse was supposed to be stiff and stay that way. But I have 1 repro and 2 vintage horse jackets of different thickness, and they are all buttery soft, like lambskin. It all had to do with the tanning process.

 

[Harris HTM]

New answers to an old question that could benefit new members who research the forum and read old thread. OP is still around after a dozen of years, maybe her/his jacket has already been broken in with wear and the question is now moot. Maybe OP can chime in and answer her/his own question now.

Please don't take it wrong as it is not meant disrespectfully. The past weeks/months I've seen you reviving threads started 15 years ago and most of them dead for more than a decade. May I ask how do you come across these threads? Do you scan the forum with special keywords? Again this is not asked with a disrespectful intention.

 

[jchance]

Please don't take it wrong as it is not meant disrespectfully. The past weeks/months I've seen you reviving threads started 15 years ago and most of them dead for more than a decade. May I ask how do you come across these threads? Do you scan the forum with special keywords? Again this is not asked with a disrespectful intention.

All good, thanks for stating your clear intention. I searched the forum’s search bar or googled with “Fedora Lounge” in the keyword searches for topics of interest (for example, breaking in leather, thin leather durability) and read threads of interest. Sometimes I comment if I have something new and useful to say, not to respond to the OP per se (which the issue may be moot at this point) or engaging with the previous commenters (some of which are gone and no longer here), but for future readers that might find it helpful.

 

[El Marro]

Please don't take it wrong as it is not meant disrespectfully. The past weeks/months I've seen you reviving threads started 15 years ago and most of them dead for more than a decade

It’s an unusual behavior and over the years here I’ve noticed that a member who does it once often does it again and again. Almost always someone else will point out that the thread in question had been dead for a long time before being revived again.
This seems to bother some people, although I’m not quite sure why. I find it unusual myself, but it doesn’t bother me in the way that telling new members where they should post things or that they shouldn’t create threads to talk about something that they want to talk about does.

 

[jchance]

It’s an unusual behavior and over the years here I’ve noticed that a member who does it once often does it again and again. Almost always someone else will point out that the thread in question had been dead for a long time before being revived again.
This seems to bother some people, although I’m not quite sure why. I find it unusual myself, but it doesn’t bother me in the way that telling new members where they should post things or that they shouldn’t create threads to talk about something that they want to talk about does.

I find it strange that there are seemingly speech police on the Internet. Here, there’s no downvote system like Reddit, nor that the moderators have already closed the threads. TFL, like the internet, is free for members to post and engage with the threads and participate in the discussion and questions in the threads. No one is asking them to respond with their displeased attitude. Unless I act like them, they show their disapproval. It’s gatekeeping 101–their way or the highway. If I wasn’t being nice, I would have told them to go pound sand or touch grass.

TFL has tools they and I can use to interact with the system. I can respond to previous threads with posts and create new threads; they can choose to not respond or ignore me. Do that if they find me spammy.

 

[Harris HTM]

This seems to bother some people, although I’m not quite sure why. I find it unusual myself

It does not bother me at all, on the contrary I come across threads that I didn't know they existed. My question to @jchance was not ill intented, it was out of genuine curiousity how one finds threads that lie dormant more than 15 years.