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Tailed Styling Explained
Tails are an anti-stress clothing system that reduces garment weight, allows ventilation, and improved maneuverability while maintaining maximum
protection levels. The Tails concept is based on the recognition that the structure of the human backbone guarantees 95% of all mid-body
flex occurs to the front (causing rear body extension only). Since it is body extension that can cause a protective gap between coat
and pants in certain body positions, this implies coats can be worn much shorter in front than in the rear and still assure no protective
gap (i.e. we can't bend backwards to the degree we can bend forward so we don't extend in the front to the degrees we extend in the
back). Shortening the nonfunctional, same length, coat front reduces garment weight between 18%-25% (same materials, same options, etc.),
improves ventilation, allows unrestricted upper leg mobility, and hence fights firefighter stress (the leading cause of firefighter
fatalities).
Traditional Styling Explained
Traditional design concept relies on coat length (or pants overlap) to assure protection. Photos above feature a same length 35" front and back coat
(i.e. excess, nonfunctional front coat lengths). This length hits the average man mid-thigh; as such, it is only ordered when bunker
pants are worn on all responses. The standard traditionally styled lengths (40") hits a man of average height immediately at the thigh.
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