New overcoat - Should I sell it or keep it? Poal added!

[SkinnyGoomba]

That's a keeper*!

*if the chest is let out.

 

[calisanfran]

Tight. Gives your body feminine curves.

 

[SpooPoker]

Originally Posted by calisanfran

Tight. Gives your body feminine curves.

Awwwww shucks!

The meds are working!

Im so torn. Its all up to my tailor. I wonder if I should poal.

 

[DocHolliday]

Been there, done this. Do not keep it. Looks like you're hulking out in the first pic, and how often are you going to wear such a thing with no bulky clothes underneath?

 

[OttoSkadelig]

i'd pass on it. it does look too snug. you also mentioned that you're wearing a linen coat underneath. try swapping it for a regular wool suit jacket. i'm sure you'll find it even snugger. overcoats aren't meant to be overly snug. not unless you're wearing them as your only top layer -- say, directly over a shirt.

some day, very likely in the near future, another perfect overcoat that's really in your size will come along, and this one will then promptly be mothballed. so i'd say save yourself the impulse buy and hold out for perfection. because, y'know, life's too short for anything but. and you're already doubting yourself -- that's the acid test.

(also agree w/ the others that that flapped chest pocket is just not on. looks like it belongs on the wing of a 747 -- not a human being.)

 

[SpooPoker]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Been there, done this. Do not keep it. Looks like you're hulking out in the first pic, and how often are you going to wear such a thing with no bulky clothes underneath?

You are right Doc - Im trying to force myself to have it fit. With a tweed underneath it would be pretty impossible to get on. Let me see what the tailor says, and if they can make magic happen, if not - B&S here we come.

 

[Sylvr]

its rediculously amazing and worth losing weight for. keep it, it is a gorgeous coat.

 

[trader]

let me know how much you want to sell it for...

 

[KenRose]

Keep it spoo!

 

[someotherstyle]

Gorgeous coat but that chest pocket flap distracts my eye wayyyyyyy too much for my liking.

 

[comrade]

Like most of the comments, it's the wrong size.
It's an elegant coat, but even a fitted coat should
have a certain " flow" as it moves with you. This
won't. It will cling. It's an overcoat, not a wetsuit.

 

[SpooPoker]

Taking it to the tailor today, and intentionally wearing a heavier jacket to see how it would be.

oh yeah- and Poll added!

 

[NewYorkIslander]

Spoo, you forgot the "donate to NYR because its his size" option in the poal.

I'd pass man, unless your tailor can do something it just looks too uncomfortable. 10 pound sausage in a 5 pound bag, as we like to say about some of the Bensonhurst queens.

 

[arc]

I voted sell, but if there's an inch+ of chest to let out I think it may be fine. Good luck at the tailor!

 

[ter1413]

I like it but HATE the flap chest pocket. Keep it!