Oh well....my offer was declined (guess thses jackets weren't so "shopworn" after all, eh?) so the point is now moot. With all the doubts about the sizing, I consider it something of a narrow escape.

Still, I guess that I don't get the whole thing about these sizes...if you measure your chest and it's 42 inches, what does that mean? Granted that there's long, regular and short tagged onto that 42 and you would choose the one that fit...and a tailor could fine tune the thing for you...but who's lying about the sizes and to what exact end? US sizes aren't accurate which way...up or down? Is this to make smaller guys feel bigger or big guys feel smaller? The waist thing I can understand....if that number gets larger as you age then you're gaining weight and nobody wants that...but why jigger with the jacket sizes? Why isn't a 42 a 42 in whatever country that it's sold in and if it isn't then it's marked incorrectly and somebody is...well, basically...bullsh*tting you?

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AA