Ripped leather jacket - help

[nclong]

I love this Ted baker leather jacket I have but unfortunately the leather ripped at the back - is this fixable or should I toss it away? Thanks - it’s been sitting in my wardrobe for a while as I don’t know what to do. It is near the sleeve of the left arm

Also I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money fixing this as I had bought this for around £150 on sale years ago - would it be expensive if it could be fixed? I was thinking of buying a new jacket instead if that’s the case

anyone? Thanks

That would need an expert to look at it, a cobbler that does leatherwork perhaps?

If the tear goes back together neatly, and you are able to get access to the wrong side of the leather (perhaps by unpicking the lining) you could patch it: get some thin leather and cut a piece slightly larger than the tear. Using leather glue (Bostick leather glue is good), stick one side of the tear to the new piece of leather, so the new piece is underneath the tear. When using leather glue, you need to apply it to both surfaces, and allow it to become slightly tacky before positioning. When it's dried, apply glue to the other side of the new piece, and very carefully stick down the other side of the tear, matching the two side of the tear as closely as possible - this will be quite tricky, and will require great care. One option for this tricky bit would be to do it in two parts - stick half the second section first and let that dry before sticking the second section. It's totally do-able, and it will hold together, but you will be left with a visible line. I mended a torn car seat this way, and it's held together perfectly for several years - leather glue is tough stuff. (Oh, and don't use leather glue if you're wearing nail varnish, because it will ruin the varnish!)

@nclong - I would take it into a proper mending place and ask advice. We have a dry cleaners near us who also do mending - they do not claim to do invisible mending , but what they do looks neat and tidy. They put a patch underneath in the same colour and then zig zag sew over the top. I would take it somewhere before I binned it. So for reference , cloth trousers mending £8.50 /£10 . I am sure if it can be mended your jacket would be more but still less than a new one.

...actually, what on earth happened to it to cause that rip? Was it something violent, because if it wasn't, I think I'd be wanting my money back from Ted Baker!

@nclong are you there, OP?

Thanks all! Sorry I hadn’t checked my mums net until now - I think I’ll try and take it to an alteration place and see what they say as I am hopeless at sewing!

@Time40 - I was in a hurry one day to reach the bank before they closed for the weekend and ran with it in on for about 15 mins and then when I got back home, I realise the jacket was ripped! It was a bit tight to begin with so I think the swinging arm action when I was running didn’t help sadly.