So. Here's Mr. Justice. Looking very stylish, I might add. I would say that I'd wear this outfit myself, but I basically already do.
But there's something wrong with the darts.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, a dart is a wedge of fabric that gets folded in on itself to provide shape to a flat piece of fabric. They're ubiquitous in all tailoring, both for breast-havers and non-breast-havers. Most torsos are a very shallow cone that peaks at the pectoral muscle, so darts typically point directly nipple-ward. There are two basic kinds of darts: open-ended darts, which go from the bust apex to a seamline, and fisheye darts, which go in and then back out, with their widest point usually at the natural waist.
Apollo Justice's waistcoat looks like it's mostly constructed in a standard way. There's a long waist dart running down the front, and a small bust dart going into the armhole. The bust dart is hard to see from some angles, but it is always there. Normally this would be just fine - that's how I construct plenty of my own waistcoats.
But there is a problem at the pockets. It looks like the waist dart takes a little break for the welt pocket before continuing back down again afterwards. If we take it literally, that means that this is a fisheye dart that releases its fullness above the pocket (which is at the natural waist) and then another one below the pocket. If you did this on a real garment, you'd see a noticeable bulge at the level of the pocket, where the fullness lets out and then gets taken back in again. That's not how it works! When you have a welt pocket where there's a dart (as is common) you just have to put the welt pocket on top of the dart. They intersect.
Now, I could let this go as 'artistic license' - as the artist who drew the sprites not wanting too many lines piled up on each other.
But then I got to the 3D games. And they doubled down.
These are now much more obviously seamlines. And they clearly stop and restart over the pocket. (also we seem to have lost the bust dart for some reason). And what's worse, the lower dart, below the pocket, is now pointing in a different direction.
See? It's at this weird angle now. That's not actually a tailoring problem (you can rotate darts around their apex as much as you like) but it does look very odd. And it makes it even clearer that this is not the same dart continued. They don't just change directions like that.
And the worst part is? They get this right on Athena's sprite.
See that dart line going right into the welt pocket? That's how this is supposed to look! Who is your tailor, Apollo? I want a word.
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