1950s Moleskin Cossack Jacket - Blue

I love the coat. I bought a size 38 and it fits perfectly on my 42-in chest with just a t-shirt. I can zip it up and it's comfortable with enough room to move around. The other thing that I love is the length; I'm a short guy, about 5 ft 6 so having a short cropped coat works well for my silhouette. One thing that I wasn't keen on was the brass buckles on the side cinch straps. I just found the straps and the cheap brass buckle clashed with the overall quality of the coat. The zipper is a white metal and the cinch straps being some thin brass or gold-plated metal, to me is a fashion faux pas. You don't put two different color metals on the same garment. Anyhow it's possible that the original garment that this was modeled from had different metal buckles then zipper but, it wasn't to my taste so I just carefully unstitched and removed the cinch straps all together.

Love the proportions of this lightweight jacket. The zipper is of marginal quality, but the quality of the moleskin fabric makes up for it.

Pros: Love the moleskin. Its very soft, yet firm. Perfect fabric for this style jacket. Love the color! Shipping was fast, from China. Cons: from China. The waist pull tabla on the waist seem to have been stitched on in the wrong direction—loose ends towards the front. The tabs also dont allow for more than 1/4” or so of adjustment on each side. Sizing: Im 5’8, 170 lbs, 44” chest, 30” waist. Dress shirt size 16.5, 32. The size 40 fits perfectly. Sleeve length cuts off right above my thumb knuckle, waist ends right below my belt buckle—nice cropped fit, with room in the chest for light layering but perfect with a t-shirt. Great, flattering silhouette if you dont have a belly!