I need some serious fit help with my suit jackets and sport jackets...

[DrFaustus]

Hey guys,

I need some serious help with the fit of my jackets. Please see the attached pictures. They both are J. Crew. The khaki jacket seems big around my chest but tight in the mid section (it is pulling when I button.) It is a size 38R. The other jacket is a size small corduroy blazer, and it feels like a better fit in the chest, but still is pulling at the waist. Whats going on here? How do I need to go in terms of the sizing, or are these two pieces just not going to work for me because of their cuts? Are either of the problems something a tailor can fix?

I'm glad I found the Style Forums, but you all have made me a freak about fit, and I think these both fit me like crap.

My chest measures about 37" - 37.5". Is a 38R even the correct size?

 

[emmanuel]

1st jacket: the shoulders are really bad, button pulls so it is too tight, the sleeves are too long and I still cant figure out how the neck fits that way! A good tailor needs to get to work immediatly.

 

[celery]

Looks like your body type does not agree with jcrew's cut.

A tailor might be able to help depending on his skills and the extent of work you need done (and available fabric on the garment).

As for jacket size, you want your actual chest size + 2 inches. So 37.5 + 2 is roughly a 40R.

 

[binge]

Your shoulders look all jacked-up from the back. Despos or atailor could provide great insight here I'm sure. Both jackets are too small, especially the second one, look at the way the vent is splayed open. However, simply going up in size may not fix the problem if increasing the size broadens the shoulders too much. It may very well be that these jacket cuts don't mesh with your body shape.

 

[sloane3]

Originally Posted by DrFaustus

The khaki jacket seems big around my chest but tight in the mid section (it is pulling when I button.)

Originally Posted by emmanuel

1st jacket: the shoulders are really bad, button pulls so it is too tight, the sleeves are too long and I still cant figure out how the neck fits that way! A good tailor needs to get to work immediatly.

Master of the Obvious.

Originally Posted by celery

Looks like your body type does not agree with jcrew's cut.

A tailor might be able to help depending on his skills and the extent of work you need done (and available fabric on the garment).

As for jacket size, you want your actual chest size + 2 inches. So 37.5 + 2 is roughly a 40R.

??????

 

[Sanguis Mortuum]

Originally Posted by celery

As for jacket size, you want your actual chest size + 2 inches. So 37.5 + 2 is roughly a 40R.

Huh?

 

[apropos]

Originally Posted by celery

As for jacket size, you want your actual chest size + 2 inches. So 37.5 + 2 is roughly a 40R.
Uh, complete nonsense?

 

[laphroaig]

Your very straight, shoulders-back posture doesn't seem to work with the first jacket so it looks loose down the back the back and pulls in every direction from the front. If that isn't your natural posture it could possibly fit perfectly if you move your shoulders forward. This should naturally bring your collar down and the pulling in the waist should disappear.

The second jacket looks much better, maybe you haven't got your shoulders so far back in that picture and jacket looks softer. The pulling at the back bottom of the jacket could be because of the jeans or again the way you are standing. If it's just that you're standing to attention to camera then I personally think there's a good chance both jackets could fit perfectly, the shoulders seem to be spot on, and I'd personally keep the second jacket in any case, the pulling near the vent won't be as visible in real life as you're moving around.

 

[Threadbearer]

Originally Posted by emmanuel

1st jacket: the shoulders are really bad...A good tailor needs to get to work immediatly.
It's my understanding that if the shoulders don't fit, then the jacket's the wrong size. A tailor can certainly help with the other problems in the pic, but if the shoulders are "really bad," as you say, then is it worth fixing the other stuff?

 

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by celery

Looks like your body type does not agree with jcrew's cut.
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+1 - I think this is the basic problem - jacket two isn't far off, but I don't think jacket one fits at all well, although it doesn't look overly small.

Originally Posted by celery

As for jacket size, you want your actual chest size + 2 inches. So 37.5 + 2 is roughly a 40R.
NO!!!

You generally want the jacket's actual measured chest size to be 2-3" larger than your bodies measured chest but this has nothing to do with the labelled size.

 

[Irond Will]

The khaki jacket has a really strange misfit to it. When viewing the front, it's pulling away from your neck, open in your chest, and stongly on the top button as though the back is too tight. But then when viewing the back, the whole thing looks rather baggy - except for the vent, which is inexplicably jacked ajar. I really don't know what's going on with that, but something needs to happen. A tailor should be able to figure out if there's some central mismatch that's causing the whole fit to fall out of whack.

Hopefully that's the case, but the overall effect is sort of like when someone puts a t-shirt on their dog - even if the sizing is about correct on average, the garment is clearly cut for a different species.

 

[GBR]

I would commend another supplier if RTW - and a salesman who knows what he is doing rather than eyeing the commission.

Better still MTM.

 

[emmanuel]

Originally Posted by Threadbearer

It's my understanding that if the shoulders don't fit, then the jacket's the wrong size. A tailor can certainly help with the other problems in the pic, but if the shoulders are "really bad," as you say, then is it worth fixing the other stuff?

I had the shoulders on a jacket adjusted once. It came out fine. Many members will tell you not to do that though. Tailoring that jacket where it needs to be tailored is pretty much changing the entire jacket! You might as well have just bought a jacket that fit you (for future reference). Since you already have the jacket you need to consider what your budget is for tailoring. If it is not an expensive jacket it makes no sense to have expensive alterations done.

 

[bigbjorn]

Originally Posted by Irond Will

Hopefully that's the case, but the overall effect is sort of like when someone puts a t-shirt on their dog - even if the sizing is about correct on average, the garment is clearly cut for a different species.

Well played.

 

[Thurston]

Everything looks so off that it almost appears that the first jacket in particular is not even sitting on your body correctly. I'd recommend trying the jackets on again with a collared dress shirt and pants that fit around your waist and a relaxed posture. Even if that's not how you'd wear these jackets, the other items will give some sort of benchmarks to gauge the fit around the collar and buttoning point. As it is, everything in the pictures looks sort of disjointed.