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I just got a great WPG shirt. I was struck by the taper of the epaulets. My Todd's didn't have taper, and it looks like the Magnoli doesn't either. Don't know about AB and Wested. But is taper SA (In Raiders)? It's hard to tell, but it could be there. Here's the WPG

looks tapered in the still.

My NH Raiders shirt epaulets are tapered, if this helps.

Just going by what I've see in the movies ( hit the 300 times mark on Raiders just the other day) and by the pics. Well they do have a slight taper to them, could just be the angle tho'

It sort of makes sense in a way, that the epaulet would be wide at its base and slimmer as it is buttoned near the collar. No need for it to be as wide, and a better reason for it to taper near the neck.

3thoubucks wrote:I just got a great WPG shirt. I was struck by the taper of the epaulets. My Todd's didn't have taper, and it looks like the Magnoli doesn't either. Don't know about AB and Wested. But is taper SA (In Raiders)? It's hard to tell, but it could be there. Here's the WPG

Those two pics look identical to me.

Travis

+1

Kyle

Not making a call one way or another, but just out of curiosity: if the epaulets were in fact tapered, why would the four other main makers of the Raiders shirt not have them tapered? Especially Todd's shirt, which is based off of a screen used shirt?
Just curious.

I have a Noel Howard shirt and the base of the epaulet measures 40 mm at the seam. At the button opening, it measures 32 mm.

There is no taper on the Todds shirt, however. This a minor shirt detail that could have gotten lost, forgotten or mistaken by the shirt maker's duplication methods?

Epaulets have a reason for being. Are they tapered on military shirts?

LJ

Texan Scott wrote:I have a Noel Howard shirt and the base of the epaulet measures 40 mm at the seam. At the button opening, it measures 32 mm.

The WPG's are 45 and 38, and they do seem to be wider than SA.

I can see a rational reason for the taper, jmo.

The one I saw had a distinctly tapered epaulet.

The other big question is, have WPG stopped making them in tent like proportions?

Kt Templar wrote:The one I saw had a distinctly tapered epaulet.

The other big question is, have WPG stopped making them in tent like proportions?

True story- the ONE WPG I bought about 2 years ago felt like I was camping in my own clothes

Kyle