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Not trying to cast any aspersions, just noting that there seem to be two quite different schools of thought on how to judge fit of a tailored jacket. You write that "maybe I have smaller arms and they fit looser than yours." My point is that (in my opinion, of course YMMV) in a well-fitting jacket, one should not be able to see the outline of your upper arm in the fabric of the jacket sleeve. You could literally have a stick for an arm or a normal-sized arm and I wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the jacket, because there shouldn't be any deformation of the fabric by your arm (when your arm/sleeve are at rest). Now, you might prefer the silhouette of the jacket sleeve to be narrower because that's how you like it to look. But my point is that you should not base your decision on whether the jacket sleeve feels loose but rather on whether the silhouette of the jacket sleeve looks proportional to your body.Before we get into casting aspersions on taste, can we realise that people are talking about different tailoring, not different end results?
We all buy different sizes and cuts and have different bodies. When I say ‘baggy’ you are thinking of how your suits fit and you say they are not baggy. But maybe I have smaller arms and they fit looser than yours.
Look at @FlyingHorker picture above. That’s fine - I would not tailor them. But that is not how mine look, so I do tailor them.
It’s possible we’re all looking for a similar end result, but some sizes/cuts/body shapes take tailoring to get there and others do not.
Note that your comment on FlyingHorker's jacket is not based on how his arm feels in the sleeve (because how could you know that) but rather whether it looks proportional.
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