I talked with Motoport today and the lady on the phone was VERY nice. I expressed my concerns about the jacket fit. She told me they had a 44 chest size on file, which is what I sent them. I measured myself last night after trying on the jacket and found my actual measurement to be a 43. I told her that my Teknic leather jacket is a 44 and fits a bit snug in the shoulders (I have an ape’s arms and back) and couldn’t understand how the difference between a 43 and a 44 would equate to five inches of gathered material in the chest.

After I described the rest of the fit issues she said they’d just build me a jacket off of a medium body and use my sleeve lengths. I think it would be awesome if they just took the arms off of my current jacket and stitched it onto a medium body :)

She was also concerned about the knee armor placement. She said they may have to move the thigh armor up as well, and that would require sending the pants back. I am going to try to see what I can do before I send the stuff back tomorrow, I’d really like to keep the pants as a birthday consolation prize to myself. Otherwise it’s going to be a two week turnaround + ship time (probably a month by my estimation).

I asked about the pant-jacket zipper, and they really downplayed the usefulness of it. Perhaps a properly-sized jacket would keep it from moving up and down so much, but I think zipping the jacket to the pants would help also.

I requested the gloves in size large and asked them to bill my CC and cross-ship the new pair out right away. She waived shipping, which I thought was nice.

Hopefully all is well that ends well. I think they are just busy over there, which may account for the order mishaps with myself and my friend. They told her to binder-clip all of the places they need to alter and send it back.