Lancer spec: Chest back elastic width and belt closure discussion

[kay_dee]

  On 2/24/2014 at 9:41 PM, mlbukowski said:

Yeah, I'm of the mind that the original scout costumes were made in the US with Imperial measurements.... if I don't get Lancer because of 1/8 of an inch... so be it .

 

As for the black bicep elastic needing to be 1 3/8 v 1.5 - come on, really? Is anyone going to notice the difference of 1/8"? Unless someone had their hands on an archives costume and confirmed beyond shadow of a doubt it is 1 3/8" for the bicep (did I miss a thread?) then I'd *think* that for lancer it could be stated "1 3/8" or 1.5" ? Are we taking rulers to all our elastic for submission photos?

[BikerScout007]

  On 3/11/2014 at 7:26 AM, kay_dee said:

As for the black bicep elastic needing to be 1 3/8 v 1.5 - come on, really? Is anyone going to notice the difference of 1/8"? Unless someone had their hands on an archives costume and confirmed beyond shadow of a doubt it is 1 3/8" for the bicep (did I miss a thread?) then I'd *think* that for lancer it could be stated "1 3/8" or 1.5" ? Are we taking rulers to all our elastic for submission photos?

 

I'm guessing these numbers came about because a lot of the brain trust is in the UK and they are using the metric system? No offense to the brain trust, you all do great work.