After your mentioning the seams, I did just that. I checked out the inside, to see if I had the same thing and I suddenly noticed where the ripping sound I experienced while out in the rain the other night, was actually coming from. I was outside helping our Pizza truck caterers set up a tent, in the rain. i guess I reached up higher than thr jacket normally allows.
There were these two 1" long rips right at the seam of each shoulder to sleeve, where the cotton backing meets the satin sleeve lining... Perfectly placed for reaching in with my fingers and pulling out the little rectangular shaped pieces of foam "pads".
It looks a bit better now. To me anyway. So thanks for the help. I'll ask my wife to sew up the holes.
So, now that you guys are mentioning it, of course I'm second guessing whether I've got goat or not.
I ordered goat, spoke to Gemma to confirm it. After there was a big delay and mix up with their emails, I called a second time and spoke to Peter and he even confirmed I was getting goat. He actually had the phone with him while he was walking around, hand picking each item I ordered, to get them off to me for next day delivery. Gemma had messed up and he was trying to quickly get the order out.
Anyway... The bag that the jacket was in, said goat and the invoice says goat. It even looks like the goat that others have shown pictures of.
I'm pretty sure it's goat.
Yet you guys DO know best, when it comes to what Wested's done in the past. Why would there be the sudden appearence of pads in a goat jacket?
I'm just breaking it in hun, I say.