What jacket(s) are you wearing at the moment?

[mulceber]

Yep! It could be worst day of winter and this jacket would be just fine.

 

[Greg Gale]

Beautiful B-3! What make is it?

 

[mulceber]

Rough Wear 17756 by Eastman.

 

[lipmann01]

5’8” 144Lbs.

I am about the same size as you but I usually wear a size 38. Does that mean that the Platon Dubow A2 fits especially small? Because I saw a 42 size tag on yours. Great looking fit and color on you!

 

[mulceber]

I am about the same size as you but I usually wear a size 38. Does that mean that the JA Dubow A2 fits especially small? Because I saw a 42 size tag on yours. Great looking fit and color on you!

Like most original A-2s, BK and Platon A-2 jackets are very fitted. the ordinary rule of thumb is that you should order one size up. A size 42 is the best size for anyone with either a 39" or 40" chest (99-101 cm).

 

[Kermit3D]

10 F / -12 C out today, so it’s B-3 weather:
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mulceber this B-3 is gorgeous and fits you incredibly well !
It doesn't look "huge" as it sometimes does.
Really very cool !

 

[Brettafett]

I am about the same size as you but I usually wear a size 38. Does that mean that the Platon Dubow A2 fits especially small? Because I saw a 42 size tag on yours. Great looking fit and color on you!

As Jan said, Platon's jackets, like BKs, ELC, GW, Aero etc... are meticulously copied from original WWII jackets, so the sizes are spot on.
And generally speaking you'd size one up from your chest size. But that would very much depend on your body type, age, etc...
These jackets were originally made for young men in their prime, who'd pass all the physicals back in the early 1940s...

Also, these jackets simply can't be compared with other, more generic, modern day jackets either, with sizes all over the spectrum.
The reason I asked about his height, was that at 5'10 I find the std 42 Dubow a touch short in the body. However, with a 40" chest, the size 42 fits perfect in all other respects.
If you're a 38 chest and 5'8, you'd likely find a 40 Dubow would do you well.
I actually got to try on a BK Dubow (exactly the same pattern as Platon's) size 40 and I could zip it up, but it was too trim, and too short.

 

[London Cabbie]

I am about the same size as you but I usually wear a size 38. Does that mean that the Platon Dubow A2 fits especially small? Because I saw a 42 size tag on yours. Great looking fit and color on you!

You need to go one size up, is the general advice. I normally take a 40 went 42 Dubow after a lot of advice. The Website will recommend you a size 38, but go 40. Snug with a sweatshirt, tiny bit loose with a T shirt...Broken in you won’t even know you are wearing it, like a glove. The wider armholes make it extremely comfortable and the collar sits low out of the way.

 

[B-Man2]

You need to go one size up, is the general advice. I normally take a 40 went 42 Dubow after a lot of advice. The Website will recommend you a size 38, but go 40. Snug with a sweatshirt, tiny bit loose with a T shirt...Broken in you won’t even know you are wearing it, like a glove. The wider armholes make it extremely comfortable and the collar sits low out of the way.

Pretty good advice .

 

[Grant]

Rough Wear 17756 by Eastman.

One of the best repro B-3's out there. Fits you well!

 

[busdrivermike]

Well a beautiful sunny but COLD -24c Sunday , dropped to a frigid -29c by the time I got done
carrying out the honey do list
Thankfully it’s basically perfectly calm so it’s not horrible in the sun but when the sun dropped
My fingertips got cold enough to make the phone screen not recognize them as fingers
As I stopped to take a pic using my gloves to balance the phone, my lower lip temporarily stuck
To the jackets zipper when I was looking down at my phone, in the pic you can see my
Red finger tips

 

[mulceber]

Mike, you look like you’re trying to talk some police officers out of arresting you.

 

[Kermit3D]

Well a beautiful sunny but COLD -24c Sunday , dropped to a frigid -29c by the time I got done
carrying out the honey do list
Thankfully it’s basically perfectly calm so it’s not horrible in the sun but when the sun dropped
My fingertips got cold enough to make the phone screen not recognize them as fingers
As I stopped to take a pic using my gloves to balance the phone, my lower lip temporarily stuck
To the jackets zipper when I was looking down at my phone, in the pic you can see my
Red finger tips

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If I may ask, where do you live ? It's damn cold !

 

[Enigma1938]

Well a beautiful sunny but COLD -24c Sunday , dropped to a frigid -29c by the time I got done
carrying out the honey do list
Thankfully it’s basically perfectly calm so it’s not horrible in the sun but when the sun dropped
My fingertips got cold enough to make the phone screen not recognize them as fingers
As I stopped to take a pic using my gloves to balance the phone, my lower lip temporarily stuck
To the jackets zipper when I was looking down at my phone, in the pic you can see my
Red finger tips

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That satchel looks great, what is it?

 

[ausreenactor]

Platon Russet Dubow. not broken...View attachment 52643View attachment 52644View attachment 52645View attachment 52646

Awesome!

 

[Imuricecreamman]

5star Dubow under the B-9.

 

[blackrat2]

Late to the party here, that’s a great fitting/looking B3 Jan

 

[Bombing IP]

London Cabbie great jacket ,I think you could of gone down a size it looks big across the shoulders and the body .Unless you want so you can layer underneath may be or you need it that way for unrestricted movement while driving . Just my personal opinion most would disagree ,I like to see the shoulder seam on top of the arm not drooping .

BIP

 

[Nickb123]

10 F / -12 C out today, so it’s B-3 weather:
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love your jackets as of late here Jan. A lot of surprises!

 

[Grant]

Wearing the Eastman 1401p today and had to stop and admire Steve Sellars skills sewing the leather border around my 13th BS patch. In this pandemic, sometimes it's the simple things!