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elizillaThe test-fitting suit in a standard size 12 was delivered today. I forgot how stiff a new 'stich can be. I returned from my trip yesterday and I am so sore that I can barely clamber into this suit. I only sat on the Ural, because I am too stiff and sore to get my leg over the Super10 while fighting the stiffness of this suit.
However, the hips and thighs are the right size and will not hamper me at all. I put the suit on over my jeans and still had plenty of room there.
The shoulders are not gigantic, and the neck size matches my neck. I don't have room for a week's worth of groceries in the top half of the suit, the way I did in my old men's sized suit.
When I reach for the bars, the sleeves are between two and three inches too short. If I pull the suit off my shoulder and put my elbow in the armor pocket, the sleeves are the right length, so I am thinking I need the lengthening only above the elbow, not below.
When I reach for the bars, there's a hampering crease in the upper arms. I think they offer an alteration to rotate the arms more forward - need to read up on that.
The torso is too short, but when you sit on a bike a short front is actually advantageous - I have often thought they should all be cut shorter in the front. So I would only lengthen in the back, and they offer an alteration for that, so that's all good. When I sew a dress or a one-piece swimsuit, I usually lengthen the torso less than one inch, and the back ellipse adds two inches in the back, which should work out to just about perfect.
The legs are not as short as I expected them to be. I'm thinking that 2" above the knee will make them right.
Later this evening or tomorrow I will try the suit on again, sit on both bikes, and think about the arms some more.
I am not interested in buying a suit that hampers me in any way. So I need to think especially carefully about that upper arm crease, and whether the added upper arm length and the extra rotation will solve it, or whether it's a sign of the shoulders being too narrow or something else that's just not right.
However, the hips and thighs are the right size and will not hamper me at all. I put the suit on over my jeans and still had plenty of room there.
The shoulders are not gigantic, and the neck size matches my neck. I don't have room for a week's worth of groceries in the top half of the suit, the way I did in my old men's sized suit.
When I reach for the bars, the sleeves are between two and three inches too short. If I pull the suit off my shoulder and put my elbow in the armor pocket, the sleeves are the right length, so I am thinking I need the lengthening only above the elbow, not below.
When I reach for the bars, there's a hampering crease in the upper arms. I think they offer an alteration to rotate the arms more forward - need to read up on that.
The torso is too short, but when you sit on a bike a short front is actually advantageous - I have often thought they should all be cut shorter in the front. So I would only lengthen in the back, and they offer an alteration for that, so that's all good. When I sew a dress or a one-piece swimsuit, I usually lengthen the torso less than one inch, and the back ellipse adds two inches in the back, which should work out to just about perfect.
The legs are not as short as I expected them to be. I'm thinking that 2" above the knee will make them right.
Later this evening or tomorrow I will try the suit on again, sit on both bikes, and think about the arms some more.
I am not interested in buying a suit that hampers me in any way. So I need to think especially carefully about that upper arm crease, and whether the added upper arm length and the extra rotation will solve it, or whether it's a sign of the shoulders being too narrow or something else that's just not right.
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Date: 2012-10-16 11:39 pm (UTC)I'll be interested to see what you decide.
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:57 pm (UTC)