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Recently I had an MTM tweed jacket made. It's a green tweed 1 button hacking jacket with one centre vent. Generally I'm very pleased, but it is rather on the long side, reaching to the end of my thumbs if my arms are relaxed by my side.
How long would you members wear an odd jacket.

I'll try and put pictures on later.

End of thumbs! MTM! Take it back for a refund straight away, and claim compensation for mental damage. This company should not be in existence.

For goodness sake the rule of thumb is dependent on the length of the arms. It is a rule used by RTW sellers.

That said it works for me as I have short arms. It encourages a short skirt (for better and for worse).

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

Odd jackets generally are cut longer because the contrasting colours of jacket and trousers can make the coat look too short otherwise. An optical illusion but nevertheless an effective one (and one employed by all the large houses on SR).

My advice would be this: don't worry about where the coat ends in relation to your thumbs. Consider how it works in combination with your odd trousers. You will probably find that it looks fine (despite the current fashion for very short coats).

Sartorius

Anonymous wrote:Recently I had an MTM tweed jacket made. It's a green tweed 1 button hacking jacket with one centre vent. Generally I'm very pleased, but it is rather on the long side, reaching to the end of my thumbs if my arms are relaxed by my side.
How long would you members wear an odd jacket.

I'll try and put pictures on later.

Surely, value for money might suggest the knees as a better sleeve length.....
NJS

Would 1-2 in off improve this? Perhaps the sleeves are a little long too. The creases in the sleeves aren't all always there, I seemed to pull my arms further back than normal.

Harrumph!

But how much could I take off before the hip pocket placing became another problem?

Anonymous wrote:But how much could I take off before the hip pocket placing became another problem?

Oh! that end of your thumbs! Actually, joking apart, it looks very nicely cut but need to see a bigger picture to say on the sleeves - some good tailors do cut them quite long. Ultimately, though it's your decision.
NJS

End of thumbs! MTM! Take it back for a refund straight away, and claim compensation for mental damage. This company should not be in existence.

In all seriousness, it looks fine a little longer (and in fact long jackets are good when worn with these silly low-rise barely-above-the-hips trousers people wear these days, since the overlap gives a bit of continuity). Not that I am accusing you of wearing of silly trousers of course, but a bit of length is not a bad thing.

It IS a long jacket, but you ARE a man with long legs. It doesn't look out of proportion to me, especially for a hacking jacket. Perhaps the sleeves could be a tad shorter. What I would change (but it is probably not possible now) is the square, heavily padded, military shoulders.

Costi

Anonymous wrote:For goodness sake the rule of thumb is dependent on the length of the arms. It is a rule used by RTW sellers.

That said it works for me as I have short arms. It encourages a short skirt (for better and for worse).

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

APOLOGIES FOR HIJACKING

Motto: it is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.

Sator, it's only now that I notice your signature is a complex palindrome. Fascinating! How did it come into being?

Costi

Here is a larger copy of the same image. Jeans worn for to create some colour contrast only, usually I'd wear something smarter.

Thank you for your opinions.

The skirt does seem a bit large.

pvpatty

Sator, it's only now that I notice your signature is a complex palindrome. Fascinating! How did it come into being?

Sticking with the hijack, I too was intrigued when I first spotted this (initially thinking Sator too clever by half!). Then, in that way that Life often surprises us with little connections and coincidences, my intrigue was heightened a couple of days later when, from the upper deck of my bus into work (which happened to be travelling a diverted route), I spotted a "ROTAS" square adorning the top of an Edinburgh building. Having since consulted Wikipedia, I would be interested to see whether Sator can give us an answer succinct enough to avoid hijacking this thread beyond the bounds that common decency might permit!
Azdak

Azdak, thanks for the Wikipedia tip, I didn't know the history behind it. Here is another favourite of mine:
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
Hijack over