Great jacket with poor zipper - Outdoor Research Aspire Trench - Women's

Really wanted to keep this jacket. Great length, very cute, nice color, was going to use it for a fall trip to UK. Although I had read about the zipper issues, I thought maybe mine would be better. Nope, really hard to get it started, took at least 5 tries. That is a major fail for a pricy jacket in my opinion. Getting the zipper up fast on a rain jacket should be a no-brainer. Sent it back.
I ended up getting a medium, fit great and I was unsure as I often buy larges (5'9", 155). A large would have been way too big.
It does pack up fairly small. Bummer about the zipper.