by I-K » Wed May 04, 2005 6:32 pm
Well, the two runs of the zipper need to have the exact same number of teeth in order for it to work, no?
And, further, the length of the zipper is going to be dependent on the waist measurement of the suit.
Short answer, no, there isn't much chance that mixing and matching jackets and pants of different sizes is going to leave them able to zip together adequately, and if they don't do that, they don't do what they're supposed to too well.
I'm the ACT agent for Underdog Leathers, and when someone approaches me to buy a custom-fitted jacket first, to be followed by the pants some time later, I first try to dissuade them from the idea, then, if they insist, we supply a complete zipper with the jacket, the bottom half of it to be retro-fitted to the pants they eventually buy by a local leatherworker... which isn't cheap, btw, hence the attempt to dissuade delaying the purchase of one half of a two-piece suit over another.