Three thrift store blazers, same bizarre shoulder pad placement

After buying a 1980s blazer with the pads sewn a full inch forward on the sleeves at Goodwill in Portland, then seeing the same mistake on two more jackets that week, I finally checked the seams and realized it's a common factory shortcut people ignore when they resell, so has anyone else noticed this on vintage jackets and do you just rip the pads out or try to reposition them?

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the_logan11d agoMost Upvoted

Found the same thing on a 90s suit I grabbed at a garage sale, pads sat so far forward the sleeves bunched up weird when I moved my arms. I tried sewing them back once, but the fabric was so worn the stitches just pulled through, so now I just rip them out and live with flopped shoulders. Honestly, half the fun of thrifting is finding these little factory screwups and talking about them like we're CSI detectives on a jacket case.