Turkey Tracks: December
Boot Wax and Coat Zippers
One day when Gina Caceci was here for Thanksgiving, we walked along the Rockland waterfront. It was misty, though not too cold. We both begin to zip up our coats.
I could not make my zipper work.
Gina could not make my zipper work.
At home, neither of us could make the zipper work.
On the way to take Gina to the Portland airport, we stopped by LLBean.
The return sales person made the zipper work in short order. (Of course she did.) But she gave me a new coat anyway. And she suggested I get some boot wax and coat the zipper with it. She had found that to be helpful with the big coat zippers.
So, I love my new coat. It zips. Which is important since we have had bitter cold. (Bitter cold is cold in the single digits and below zero. Cold in the 30s now feels like a summer breeze.)
And I just coated the zipper with the boot wax.
Then I coated my cherished boots with the beeswax. (They were a gift from Sarah Rheault about 10 years ago since they did not fit her or her daughter. They fit me wonderfully!!)
Yes. They look like new.
The instructions, which I read AFTER I waxed, said to heat the leather with a hair dryer first to warm the leather. Well, that makes sense. Next time…
Meanwhile, the wax is on the counter ready to coat all the other coat zippers as needed.
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