Sizing on vintage jackets is so tricky!
Just to find out the size I should be shopping for on Ebay, I did the typical "armpit to armpit" measurement on five vintage tweed jackets I had at that time.
I found that there was, strangely enough, little correlation between the actual measurement and how the jackets fit me.
A jacket with a larger measurement might feel snug, while another jacket with a smaller measurement might feel too loose. It didn't make any sense.
So I use measurements as only a rough guide (size labels are even worse) and realise that I won't know how a jacket fits until I buy it and wear it.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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