Help!: Jacketly Impared

[M. A. C. Newsome]

For what it's worth, here is the cest size/sleevel length chart that I spoke of. This comes from Lochcarron, so it is definitely true for their jackets, and from my experience is also true throughout the industry.

Sizes are given as chest size/sleeve length in inches, for regular fitting jackets. Short will be 1" less in the sleeve, and long will be 1" more.

36/23.5
38/24
40/24.5
42/25
44/25
46/25
48/25.5
50/26
52/26
54/27

[Nanook]

For what it's worth, here is the cest size/sleevel length chart that I spoke of.

In the context I'd like to stress that sleeve length should be short enough to expose some shirt and cuff links. With proper shirt length (ending before the wrists) one should have when the arms are in a resting position (like typing at a keyboard) about 1 cm (1/2 inch) of shirt showing. With fancy lace cuffed shirts the length of the shirt is a bit more and the style of jacket calls for a slightly shorter arm length to expose a bit more lace.

In many online sites and catalogs, jackets are shown with overly long arms. Example:
http://www.kinlochanderson-kilts.com...ml?id=PgmvKTFE

The above is shamefully from Kinloch Anderson. I hope they'd NEVER send a customer of the shop dressed like that.

When it should like this (just searched the net until I found a good image so its a nearly random choice):