Despot
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Hey fellow loungers…
I’ve an odd question - how easy/possible is it to reduce the size of a leather jacket?
I’ve posted on here before about having lost a lot of weight in the last 8 months. I’ve gone from, in real terms, a size 48 to somewhere between a 42 and 44 depending on the maker. In suits I’ve dropped from a well fitted EU60 to a roomy EU56 in fairly slim fitting Canali suits (drop 7) and I’d say at the rate the weight is slowly dropping I’ll be an easy EU54/44 in slim suits before the end of the year. The slimmest I’ve ever been was a size 42 in suits in my 20s … so I’m pretty happy about this weight loss at 43.
Except that my favourite jacket - my old daily driver Aero Premier half belt - is like a sail on me now.
It’s tagged as a 46 - as it was a stock jacket it wasn’t made for me … and in my heavier years (ie last year and since Covid) I couldn’t zip it closed. But it seems to me that it’s within the realm of being altered to fit again (albeit not a tight or slim fit perhaps as it was when it fit me perfectly when I first got it before I piled on weight in 2020).
Why not order a new one in the right size I hear you say? Well… it’s got sentimental value. I wore it the day I proposed to my fiancé and the day I carried our daughter over the threshold of our home. Hell - I wore it when we took the keys to our home and walked into our house that first cold December evening in 2019.
As I said … it’s got serious sentimental value. If possible I’d like to be able to wear it for years to come.
So - what’s the likelihood of this being possible? I think it’ll have to come in at least two inches on the chest and waist … and all the knock on effects that’ll come from that.
Anyone tried something like this before?
I’ve an odd question - how easy/possible is it to reduce the size of a leather jacket?
I’ve posted on here before about having lost a lot of weight in the last 8 months. I’ve gone from, in real terms, a size 48 to somewhere between a 42 and 44 depending on the maker. In suits I’ve dropped from a well fitted EU60 to a roomy EU56 in fairly slim fitting Canali suits (drop 7) and I’d say at the rate the weight is slowly dropping I’ll be an easy EU54/44 in slim suits before the end of the year. The slimmest I’ve ever been was a size 42 in suits in my 20s … so I’m pretty happy about this weight loss at 43.
Except that my favourite jacket - my old daily driver Aero Premier half belt - is like a sail on me now.
It’s tagged as a 46 - as it was a stock jacket it wasn’t made for me … and in my heavier years (ie last year and since Covid) I couldn’t zip it closed. But it seems to me that it’s within the realm of being altered to fit again (albeit not a tight or slim fit perhaps as it was when it fit me perfectly when I first got it before I piled on weight in 2020).
Why not order a new one in the right size I hear you say? Well… it’s got sentimental value. I wore it the day I proposed to my fiancé and the day I carried our daughter over the threshold of our home. Hell - I wore it when we took the keys to our home and walked into our house that first cold December evening in 2019.
As I said … it’s got serious sentimental value. If possible I’d like to be able to wear it for years to come.
So - what’s the likelihood of this being possible? I think it’ll have to come in at least two inches on the chest and waist … and all the knock on effects that’ll come from that.
Anyone tried something like this before?