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Diamond Dave - Buco J-21

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Much better fit. Looks great..!!

So A-1, when are you sending it back?

I kid. Sort of. Looks like a really good jacket though yeah, hate bringing this up but it is a bit too long for my taste. I'm staying by my previous statement that the first jacket looked the business & just how I imagine these should be. That's a helluva distance between the chest and the D-pocket. I guess Dave wanted to be as accurate as possible with the snap-on belt loop going through the D-pocket, but oftentimes I noticed that the longer styled Buco's usually had the chest pocket lowered & the D-pocket moved up a bit, so the D-pocket belt loop snap was avoided. ...exactly what he did for your first jacket, oddly enough??

Are the sleeves longer on this one as well?
 

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Yeah, I know what you guys mean!
To me he distance seemed strange in the beginning but I like it like that now!
For me the length is so much better now. I love how it feels wearing it. The first one I felt like a belly free girly.
The sleeves are not longer, but tighter. I fastened the Zips on the photo.

I'll write some more in the next days.
 

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To my eye, part of the problem is that the quick photos are too dark to show the top seam of the D-pocket, so it's accentuating the distance between the D-pocket zipper and the upper chest pocket zipper. In natural light, I expect that it would look more balanced.

This discussion does raise some important points:

1. What does the pattern maker do when the length is changed, in relation to keeping the jacket in balance?

2. If this is really a new pattern based on a vintage jacket that Dave worked from, is it in fact more accurate while being less pleasing to some people's eyes?
 

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If the jacket length is extended, the pockets need to be repositioned in relation to the new length or reduced in size if it's shortened.
 

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