• Hi, I am the owner and main administrator of Styleforum. If you find the forum useful and fun, please help support it by buying through the posted links on the forum. Our main, very popular sales thread, where the latest and best sales are listed, are posted HERE

    Purchases made through some of our links earns a commission for the forum and allows us to do the work of maintaining and improving it. Finally, thanks for being a part of this community. We realize that there are many choices today on the internet, and we have all of you to thank for making Styleforum the foremost destination for discussions of menswear.
  • This site contains affiliate links for which Styleforum may be compensated.
  • STYLE. COMMUNITY. GREAT CLOTHING.

    Bored of counting likes on social networks? At Styleforum, you’ll find rousing discussions that go beyond strings of emojis.

    Click Here to join Styleforum's thousands of style enthusiasts today!

    Styleforum is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

MTM leather jacket and later weight loss

josepidal

Distinguished Member
Joined
Apr 4, 2006
Messages
2,189
Reaction score
74
There are old threads on this for suits, but I wanted to ask specifically for leather jackets.

How bad (or good!) is it if you have a leather jacket made MTM, but you lose substantial weight later (say over 10 or 20 kg).

The longstanding advice for suits is to have a suit made for your body today and absolutely not give in to wishful thinking to anticipate potential weight loss. The shoulders are the important part and are less affected by weight loss, and for a suit the waist can be taken in to a degree. How exactly does this translate for a leather jacket?

I assume everyone will say here go ahead and get something made, and in the very worst (best!) case, get another made to celebrate if your waist really shrinks by 6 inches.
 

Featured Sponsor

How important is full vs half canvas to you for heavier sport jackets?

  • Definitely full canvas only

    Votes: 97 36.7%
  • Half canvas is fine

    Votes: 95 36.0%
  • Really don't care

    Votes: 32 12.1%
  • Depends on fabric

    Votes: 44 16.7%
  • Depends on price

    Votes: 40 15.2%

Forum statistics

Threads
507,567
Messages
10,596,919
Members
224,478
Latest member
Lovebitesgummies
Top