Another oddity that should come as no surprise is that the curvature of the necklines and shape of the front openings of the DS9/NEM admiral jacket yokes seemed to vary quite a bit over the years.
Admiral Ross' jacket neckline, for instance, was somewhat sharply pointed, mimicking the mitered neckline trim on the standard duty jumpsuits and "captain jackets" on Deep Space Nine:
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Admiral Dougherty's, on the other hand, was more rounded, mimicking the rounded necklines seen on the TNG crew's jumpsuits and jacket(s) in First Contact and Insurrection:
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| Insurrection |
Admiral Paris' neckline was sort of in the middle of the two - more rounded than Admiral Ross, more pointy than Admiral Dougherty:
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| VOY, 6x10 "Pathfinder" |
And I have no idea what was up with the curvature of "Admiral" Patrick's cosplay:
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| He apparently wasn't too happy about it, either. |
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| VOY, 7x25 "Endgame" |
The angle of the front opening didn't seem to vary as much, although every now and then we would see something really weird, like this guy's jacket from Voyager's finale, "Endgame":
I mean, just check out these two admirals standing right next to each other in the same shot!
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| VOY, 7x25 "Endgame" |
Different neckline curvature, different front opening angle, different jacket length ...
But we see the first guy's jacket as an outlier, and we've avoided using it as a basis for construction standards.
One final note about the front openings:
The "captain jackets" of the DS9/NEM era, once finalized in Nemesis, ideally had a front opening that spanned the width of exactly one quilt line, measured from the intersections of the bias trim:
However, the DS9/NEM admiral jackets, while not having front openings of consistent widths/angles, all seemed to have a consistent distance from the centermost quilt line to the bottom front opening itself:
This is only speculation, but I believe that this was because the "captain jacket" yoke was used as the pattern base for the admiral jacket yoke.
Consider that the "captain jackets" had ⅜" bias trim around the neckline (just as both jackets had at the bottom of the yoke and shoulder points), and said trim intersected with the quilt lines or mid-quilt lines in all the proper ways (see the picture of Captain Picard in his Nemesis "captain jacket" above).
Remove that trim, and you're left with a sort of awkward assortment of lines and angles that don't quite line up with anything; we used our "captain jacket" yoke as a base for our admiral jacket yoke to test this hypothesis (adding seam allowance along the neckline for the piping), and you can see for yourself that our result closely matched the screen-used admiral jackets in this regard:
Were there ⅜" bias trim along the neckline, as with the "captain jackets," the admiral jackets' quilt lines would make more geometrical sense - at least in relation to their idealized "captain jacket" counterparts:
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| (DS9/NEM "captain jacket" construction comparison) |
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