I love this thread OP. And I love your new jacket as well. I hope you get so much enjoyment from wearing it.
I live in a not first world country and we get all the unsold items from the first world country charity shops. If you know where to go you can get jackets from one place, shoes from another etc etc.
My weakness are the jackets. I don't even live in a very cold climate, but sometimes I just cannot leave them and hence I have a vast collection.
I think my best find is the green pure wool coat from St Michaels (so I am thinking 70s or 80s). It fits just past my knee length, single breasted, and it has the most fabulous hood that is detachable. I call it my Harry Potter coat. I only got to wear it twice this winter just gone, when the temp really plummeted, but I am never parting with it. It is from the era of when sizings were a bit more real, it is size 12, but I am an 8 and it fits me well.
Some of the coats I have come across in there are unbelievable. Quite a few cashmere, which I can only imagine the price of when they were new.
But thanks to me snooping this board, I now recognize decent brands that are not really known here. Brands like Max Mara and the likes that don't readily make it this way.
I cannot recall the last time I bought something new. I actually got quite a shock when I did go into a shop, at the prices of new items that really are not that great at all.