The “WWII fit”looks looser, longer, wider shoulders than the “modern fit”, at least in those photos
That's the paradox! That's why these guys munch over this stuff over and over. That being said- I think if modern repro makers concentrated on copying the slightly loose body look with the squarish shoulders we'd have better jackets.I see what you mean. But if WWII proportion jackets won’t fit modern, fit, muscular men, then why manufacture them? Back in WWII the men in the service did not have television, junk food, were not couch potatoes and many were malnourished farm boys coming out of the depression. Did you ever see the size of the average man back in the American revolution? Tiny!! Newly manufactured jackets need to be able to fit us modern dudes. I am only in avg shape and I have a 7” drop from chest to waist. I need wide shoulders. Not a square box, but a little bit of a V
Exactly! Although at large sizes 46+ WW2 jackets start getting big collas, big bodies, big sleeves but often not much of an increase in length. Pockets look small...We can ALL wear an exact copy, just may need a bigger size. In WWII everyone got an A-2 regardless of their size and build. They just tried on jackets from the pile and kept the one that fit best. They weren’t tailor made to the individual and few of the photos i have seen from the war look like the fit in the photos you posted from Goodwear
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Here's my WW2 Dubow. You can see that the proportion of shoulder to body is smaller than any modern repro maker- in fact at 46 this jacket fit me perfectly in the shoulders (sleeves too short) even though technically I'm a modern L or 44. You can also see the tiny sleeve end cap relief up at the top of the right shoulder- this causes the sleeve to work more independently of the body and not pull the end of the shoulder down...
Who took the bullet to the arm?
We can ALL wear an exact copy, just may need a bigger size. In WWII everyone got an A-2 regardless of their size and build. They just tried on jackets from the pile and kept the one that fit best. They weren’t tailor made to the individual and few of the photos i have seen from the war look like the fit in the photos you posted from Goodwear