My old jacket needs a fix

[Greatdane]

Hi guys, I need a little help with my Fight Club jacket.

It looks like this:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww38 ... 1251300348

It's a bit... well... plain I think, I'd like it to be a little more shiny like this:
http://www.filmjackets.com/FILM_JACKETS ... lub004.jpg
http://www.filmjackets.com/FILM_JACKETS ... lub006.jpg
http://www.filmjackets.com/FILM_JACKETS ... lub007.jpg

I thought that maybe I could apply something to the leatherjacket, except I don't know what to use. So if anyone has experience with this kind of stuff I'd like to hear it.

edit: By the way, I'd like to color it into a deeper red, can any of you recommend a brand?

[Hollowpond]

I think it looks great!!!

[Greatdane]

Yeah it looks pretty good at the moment but I'd still like to shine it up as the movie jacket was a tad more shiny.

wow, almost 70 replies and no one has any idea?

[Jens_Hoppe]

How about using some regular leather shoe wax on it? This brand, for example, or just whatever your local shoe shop carries. I have a couple of different kinds of shoe wax at home; one absolutely colorless and one with a bit of brown in it. Both should shine up your jacket a bit, and the later kind might darken it a bit as well (and both ought to do well for waterproofing it ).

With Denmark being the Pecard-less country it is, I have used this stuff on leather jackets, with no ill effects. If you are unsure, you can always experiment on just a small, out of the way area of the jacket first (underneath the collar, for example).

[knibs7]

Yeah it looks pretty good at the moment but I'd still like to shine it up as the movie jacket was a tad more shiny.

wow, almost 70 replies and no one has any idea?

Um there haven't been 70 replies...

Kyle

[VP]

Depends on the leather, I use Letap on my Wested lamb and it makes it shiny again. Got the cans from KT Templar. I also have Pecards from Joe Strain that I use on my other leather stuff and it works great.