Beautiful vintage fly fishing vest.  This vest served me many years until the river currents finally curtailed my desire to wade fish.  Now I boat fish or bank fish and leave the rocks and currents to the younger anglers.  The knit collar on this vest serves to take pressure off the angler's neck, since we all carry far more gear in our vest pockets than we could ever possibly use!.  Firestarters, flashlights, extra leaders, tippets, sandwiches, etc can all fit in this vest to the point that if you fall you will need to shuck the vest to ever hope to get your head above water again!/  The only zipper on this vest that seems to have problems is the main zipper on the front of the vest.  sometimes it zips, and sometimes it unzips on it's own.  I got so fat I seldom used it.  if you use it, you will probably want to drop it off to the cleaners and ask them to put a new zipper on.  All the other connections seem to work.  Best of luck fishing if you decide to bid.  this quality vest will probably be fit to pass on to your son or daughter should they get hooked on fly fishing. Mine were too smart for that!.