Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
The thing with jackets is, you have to cut the sleeve and arm-opening on the jacket body in one manner to give your arms full range of motion, and a quite different way so that the jacket looks neat and sleek when you have your arms down at your sides.

To get full range of motion the arm-opening on the jacket body is more or less round, the jacket body coming up nearly to your arm-pit, and the sleeve more or less a cylinder attaching to the body at a 90 degree angle, horizontal in other words.
Richard, thank you so much!

This is exactly the reassurance I was looking for, and I now know I didn't screw up.

The jacket is comfortable with arms at my side, and fits about as close as I'd want it to.

Maybe one day I'll look up one of the Piper's Jackets, but for now I'm happy as a clam.