Lost Worlds Horsehide Vintage Trench

[cbez]

Stuart's patterns often have quite wide shoulders.

 

[Denton]

My sense is that Aloysius is correct. Here is a useful post from Rabbit comparing the shapes of various overcoats from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Some narrow shoulders, some wide and built out.

What's your size, I mean your actual chest measurement?

Here are some of my overcoats. The rightmost in the collage is an Ulster in the 30s-40s sense of the word.

- Starting from the left, #1 and #2: early 20s, narrow shoulder
- #3 and #4: early/mid 30s, narrow shoulder but with the shoulder seam running differently, plus hourglass cut
- #5: CC41, shoulders have more built-up and are beginning to get wider
- #6: the military-type CD Greatcoat, 1952
- #7: 1948 dated Lampaka belted back Ulster by Howard Clothes (currently for sale in the Classifieds, size c. 37-39)

Another Ulster, a 1937 dated belted back Ulster with reverse pleated back by Stein Bloch, grey check with blue overcheck:

A similar 20s model:
1924. Washington, D.C., Alfred Stern, director of Washington's first radio exposition

@Mythic, your coat looks great.

 

[Tom71]

That’s a spectacular coat, @Mythic!

To my eyes, not too big/wide at all for this style.