bfrench
Administrator
Hi, Folks,
I was visiting the Fedora Lounge and helping a new comer getting some measurements for a properly fitting A-2 - his first purchase.
Now realizing that there really is no such thing as a perfect fit, I thought I'd go along the lines of what today's people are used to today in the way a jacket fits with jeans.
First of all, trouser rise or where the waist line fits is much lower today than when it was when the A-2 / M-422a jackets were designed in the 1940s - so let's be realistic and make this jacket adapt to the jeans / trousers we wear now.
A good place to start is to find a jacket that fits well with the clothes you wear and apply the following measurements to it.
Armpit to armpit - if you have a size 44" chest a skin tight fit would give an armpit to armpit measurement of 22" - that is, the chest size halved.
So you want a little room to wear a t-shirt, dress shirt and maybe a sweater. The minimum extra slack would be 2" making your armpit to armpit ( 22" +2") yielding a 24" armpit to armpit measurement. Of course this is going to be a very tight jacket with the T-shirt, dress shirt and sweater underneath.
A more reasonable approach would be to add 4" to your basic armpit measurement to make it 26" armpit to armpit. This would be a reasonable fit.
The largest you would want to go would be 5" giving a 27" armpit to armpit - I would recommend this for sizes 46 and above only.
More to follow tomorrow.
I was visiting the Fedora Lounge and helping a new comer getting some measurements for a properly fitting A-2 - his first purchase.
Now realizing that there really is no such thing as a perfect fit, I thought I'd go along the lines of what today's people are used to today in the way a jacket fits with jeans.
First of all, trouser rise or where the waist line fits is much lower today than when it was when the A-2 / M-422a jackets were designed in the 1940s - so let's be realistic and make this jacket adapt to the jeans / trousers we wear now.
A good place to start is to find a jacket that fits well with the clothes you wear and apply the following measurements to it.
Armpit to armpit - if you have a size 44" chest a skin tight fit would give an armpit to armpit measurement of 22" - that is, the chest size halved.
So you want a little room to wear a t-shirt, dress shirt and maybe a sweater. The minimum extra slack would be 2" making your armpit to armpit ( 22" +2") yielding a 24" armpit to armpit measurement. Of course this is going to be a very tight jacket with the T-shirt, dress shirt and sweater underneath.
A more reasonable approach would be to add 4" to your basic armpit measurement to make it 26" armpit to armpit. This would be a reasonable fit.
The largest you would want to go would be 5" giving a 27" armpit to armpit - I would recommend this for sizes 46 and above only.
More to follow tomorrow.