This pattern is more modern slim long.
They were looking at a modern audience with this one.
Why do we think long (slim) bodied jackets cater to a modern wardrobe?but it's definitely been altered in pattern to suit contemporary fashion.
For the record I tried that jacket on at Schott a while back and it was massively too long on me. I'm 5'7" 170 like the OP, although I think we have different body types. Either way, I felt like the jacket was at least 1.5" too long in the body for the style.
I think it looks good, but for the overly long sleeves; if you get them sorted out,the rest is a very fine looking, slightly looser jacket. Yes, its long(ish) in the body, but with some layering/untucked shirts it´s gonna work.
Why do we think long (slim) bodied jackets cater to a modern wardrobe?
I am definitely team undersized.Yeah, I think the same. Sort the sleeve length and good to go.
I am not sure why TFL is convinced that the fashionable look is 2000s skinny jeans (which I hated then and now); they have been out for years now. If anything the young celebs are wearing absurd levels of 90s oversized.
But then I guess people like Daniel Craig and his partner-in-crime the deranged costume designer Jany Tamime have established a trend for majorly undersized tailoring that looks worse than anything else I've ever seen so there's simultaneously a young people oversize trend and a middle aged undersized trend.
I am not sure why TFL is convinced that the fashionable look is 2000s skinny jeans (which I hated then and now); they have been out for years now. If anything the young celebs are wearing absurd levels of 90s oversized.
Yeah if there's one good thing about being below average height, it's being the right size for great vintage jackets.Yeah this is really the thing. I envy your height for vintage shopping–I feel like I'm just past the threshold of finding things, and I say it as someone who's been wearing high waisted trousers for most of my life (I got into classic menswear and made a TFL account in 2007); unfortunately some just aren't long enough for the intended fit on me.
Even with my Field aviator, I wish I had specced at least a 25" back; @Marc mndt advised me to lengthen from my intended 24" and to widen the hem, but I did so minimally (requested 24.5 back and added an inch to hem width) because I was still worrying of the jacket ending up too long.