Gussets on a Wested?

corellian1 · Post by **corellian1** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:10 am

Hi everyone - I'm compiling a list of features for my first Wested. I'm intending to get a goat LC and I was just wondering what everyone thought of gussets. Do they really make the big a difference in mobility? Would simply asking for a larger armhole do the same thing?

Thanks for the input...

Fedora · Post by **Fedora** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:48 am

In theory, gussets would lessen the amount that you jacket rides up when you raise up an arm. Better mobility and all that. I just ordered a Wested and specified the gussets. Heck, they have to help some.

But we need to hear from a current owner. Fedora

Indydawg · Post by **Indydawg** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 7:39 am

I don't think that there's anything that a well constructed jacket can't to that gussets will do better. I've got two FS jackets with 'em and a Wings and Wested without 'em. They all give me about the same range of motion. The FS jackets DO offer a bit more freedom of movement in "awkward" positions (like reaching behind the seat of a car to retrieve a sippy cup that has been tossed in the floor by a fussy 2 year old girl, for example), but this could be due to the way they construct the jacket and not specifically a function of the gussets.

Bottom line....I think you're going to get alot of different answers here. Me? I don't think they do all that much. and I don't think the LC jacket had them either, so....

Later!
Indydawg

Doctor_Jones · Post by **Doctor_Jones** » Wed Dec 18, 2002 10:35 am

Just came off the phone with the people from Airborne Express and they will deliver my Wested goat LC tomorrow so I'll let you know.

Kind regards

DJ

corellian1 · Post by **corellian1** » Thu Dec 19, 2002 1:09 am

Hey, Doctor Jones - must be pretty exciting knowing that your jacket is just down the street (well, more or less...) I look forward to hearing your report!

Thanks as well to Indydawg and Fedora for your input. There's so much to think about. Before I started thinking about getting The Jacket, I never knew anything about how clothes were put together. Now, I'm paying much more attention to everything - jackets, pants. I've even gotten more conscious of how my socks are constructed!

Indiana Joe · Post by **Indiana Joe** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:58 am

Fedora wrote:In theory, gussets would lessen the amount that you jacket rides up when you raise up an arm. Better mobility and all that. I just ordered a Wested and specified the gussets.

I agree. My Expedition had them and I am ordering my Wested with them. But the big one for me is that they were on the screen jacket.

I.J.

Fiddler_Jones · Post by **Fiddler_Jones** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 3:58 pm

Woo, I haven't posted in a long while...
My Wested has gussets. I've noticed that they make the jacket a little easier to slip on and off. They also keep my sleeves from riding up my arm too much while I'm driving.

-Fiddler

corellian1 · Post by **corellian1** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:07 am

Wow - I didn't expect any more replies after the thread had been here so long. Thanks, Fiddler and Joe, for your input!

Corellian

Gussets on a Wested?

Gussets on a Wested?

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