Seam down the middle in the back - poll!

[Will Zach]

I found that I will not buy a jacket if it has a seam straight down the middle in the back. I like one-piece backs the most, will accept sunburst or similar patterns, but somehow I associate a two-piece back with a straight seam down the middle with material savings (cheapness) and will just not buy it. Is it an extreme view? WDTLS (What Does The Lounge Say)? Vote in a poll!

 

[Psant25]

I have a love hate relationship with the vanson model B that has the center back seam. Bought and sold one prlly 4-5 times. Never cared for that center seam. It did fit really well and obviously wearing the jacket ya cant see it so I do not really know why it bothered me. The schott asset jacket has it and dont mind it too much on that one I think due to the lower back panel right under it

https://www.schottnyc.com/products/asset-cafe-racer.htm

 

[Monitor]

Not a fan. At all. It has to be a really perfect jacket for me to ignore the back center seam.

 

[Seb Lucas]

A lot of good makers have done this in their patterns - Vanson, Bates, Aero, Sears - and it has long been a look people here have identified as undesirable. I personally don't mind it on some jackets.

There are two types - there is the two piece back, with one long seam and no yoke (Vanson Model B). And there is the traditional three piece back - seam down the middle with a yoke (Aero veste Des Rallye). I've seen both of these on jackets since the 1930's. On larger jackets, like an Aero car coat, it is more understandable, on their board racer I am not keen on the look.

What I really don't like is a half-belt jacket, where the centrel panel has a seam down the middle.

 

[jglf]

Don’t care for the look, but in the case of my Vanson Oxford, it really helps with the V-taper. I would rather have a well fitting jacket with the seam than the other way around.

 

[Guppy]

I prefer no center seam, but I have a few jackets that have one, and for the right jacket, it works.

 

[Marc mndt]

Are we talking this? (a)

Or this (B)

 

[Will Zach]

A

 

[Marc mndt]

A

Ok I think (a) looks absolutely terrible, but I really can't explain why. Maybe it's because I associate this type of back with those Japanese jackets which are really fitted and too long for their style, making them look like sausages.

 

[Cyber Lip]

Depends on the jacket. On some you sort of need a center seam there. A giant slab of plain leather doesn't always look right depending on what's going on elsewhere on the jacket. I personally don't like the look of a straight horizontal back yoke with no vertical center seem underneath it. The "T" look is preferable IMO

 

[Seb Lucas]

Are we talking this? (a)
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Or this (B)
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I was referring to both and a third, more common version with a yoke and a middle seam.

 

[jglf]

Ok I think (a) looks absolutely terrible, but I really can't explain why. Maybe it's because I associate this type of back with those Japanese jackets which are really fitted and too long for their style, making them look like sausages.

I hope that I don’t look like a sausage. Lol

 

[Marc mndt]

I hope that I don’t look like a sausage. Lol


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Lol no you don't. Nobody voted 'love it' so since you own one I guess you voted 'don't care either' way?

These are examples of jackets that look too long and too snug to me:

Edit : goes without saying, the Caboose is an awesome jacket. I just don't like the proportions of this one.

 

[Seb Lucas]

I think they look fine on the Vanson B's.

 

[ton312]

I love it on Bates and Vanson jackets!

worked on the Goodgal too:

 

[JMax]

^^^ 100 percent agree

 

[Marc mndt]

I love it on Bates and Vanson jackets!
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worked on the Goodgal too:
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These are great.

Personally I just don't like it when the seam goes from the top down.

 

[ton312]

These are great.

Personally I just don't like it when the seam goes from the top down.

The yoke does seem to help balance it a bit.

 

[Lebowski]

Ton, in your quiz you've possibly forgot to add the button/paragraph "It depends on the pattern".
So, for instance - never for CRs like J100 pattern, never for cross-zippers, A-2s and A-1s etc., but sometimes O'k for carcoats.
Though, am not a big fan of that middle seam feature. To my taste jackets like HBs usually look better when they have a middle pleat instead just a middle seam.

 

[navetsea]

to me if there is a reason I don't mind. I have it on my goat jacket because the goathide is narrow, also it has to taper and shape the back better not just there to join 2 panels flatly

saying that, I don't "love" it, I rather a 3 pieces back to shape it rather than 2 pieces with center seam
other than my goat jacket I don't have it on my other jackets made from cowhide