So, March of last year my coat got a giant rip in it. I pitched it because it wasn't in a spot that could be easily or inconspicuously repaired, and didn't think about it again (I was feeling optimistic about the surgery timeline).

Fast forward to November. It's STUPID cold, and the only coat I have left is too small to zip (it won't fit over a sweater at all, but I don't have many of those left either...I haven't purchased / replaced much clothes in the last couple of years). Surgery is next Tuesday.

If you were me, would you go ahead and get a coat that fits right now just to be warm, and deal with the fact that it's going to be baggy by the end of winter and probably unwearable next year, or would you suck it up and deal with a coat that doesn't quite fit now, hoping that enough weight will come off (and quickly enough) to wear this one for the rest of the winter?

I refuse to give up my 14 year old 2x faded brown hooded carrhart coat with a hood. I'm pretty much in a xl but I'm a country girl (pink camo is MY style lol) and from Michigan. I care next to nothing about being fashionable...I want to be WARM! Underneath my huge coat I can get on a tee, a sweatshirt, a hoodie and I still freeze. I do have a dress coat but it has no hood. Useless