How to measure the sizes of clothes to choose?




  Clothes and shoes are made in different countries have different labeling sizes. So distinguished British sizes, American, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Since then, the right to determine the size of your clothes or shoes? In fact, everything is very simple: it is only necessary to measure its parameters and use the comparative table for the correct determination of compliance.
    The main yardsticks are:
For women: the growth of (1), chest (2), waist circumference (3), hip circumference (4), the length of the side seam pants (5), the inner seam of pants (6), sleeve length (8).


For men, the growth of (1), chest (2), waist circumference (3), the length of the side seam pants (5), the inner seam of pants (6), neck (7), the length of the sleeve (8).

1. Height: to determine the size of the garment is measured as follows: without shoes to the back to lean against a vertical surface. Height is measured from head to foot.
2. Chest: Measuring tape should be held horizontally around the body through the protruding point mammary glands, and close on the right side of the chest.
Circumference below the breast (for women) is measured under the breast, passing the tape under the arms in the most greater part of it.
3. Waist: Measuring tape should be held horizontally around the torso at the waist (the narrowest place). For larger waist level approximately determine his hands so that little fingers were on the most protruding parts of the hip bones in front. At the level of index finger and is located approximately waist.
4. Circumference of hips: measured at the outermost points of the hips and buttocks, while Design your feet together, measure your hips at the greater part, about 15-20 cm below the waist.
5. The length of the side seam of trousers: it is best to remove it with a bushel of pants that you have to sit very well. Measure without the belt to the bottom of his trousers. Otherwise, you can measure the body, from hip to foot bones.
6. Inseam: Measure the length from the crotch to the bottom of the seam, it is best to remove it with a bushel of pants that you have to sit very well.
7. Circumference of neck: it is better to measure from and to the mid-point of the vanishing of the radial bones of the shoulders, then there are places where the neck ends and begins chest. Number corresponds to the circumference collar shirt neck. It is necessary to add a few inches to spare encirclement, or the collar is too tight.
8. Sleeve Length: Measure the length of the sleeve from the center of your neck at the back, around a little bent elbow to the wrist.
9. Gloves Size: The size of the circle the fullest part of your hands, just before the knuckles, excluding thumb.

 When measuring the size is rounded in a big way, free thing looks prettier than a little is not enough.

    How to measure your shoe size?

  To determine your shoe size is necessary to measure the length of the foot leg. WARNING not sole shoes!
   Put both feet (socks) on a sheet of paper and draw a pencil. On the resulting figure, measure the distance between the most distant points. To measure both feet, and then more important. This result should be rounded up to 5 mm.
  It is important to determine the completeness of the shoe. To do this, measure the circumference of the foot centimeter tape at the widest point of the toe (the bones).


  Data obtained from measurements of its size, you can use in determining when converting men's clothing sizeswomen's clothing in sizes UK other countries.