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Find Your Fit

Measured once, checked properly.

Height and weight alone let us estimate the rest. Add tape measurements and we check them against each other — catching the mistakes that ruin a garment before a single cut is made, and telling you plainly when no standard size is right for you.

You are measuring for Herringbone Cargo Pants. We will bring you back to it when you are done, and carry these numbers with it into your bag.

Your measurements stay in this browser. Nothing is sent to us unless you place an order, and we never ask for a photograph. How we handle data.

Find Your Fit

Let us take you through it.

13 short steps — only the measurements Herringbone Cargo Pants is actually cut to. Each one shows you exactly where the tape goes, and where it should not, and checks your answer before you move on.

Your measurements stay in this browser. Nothing is sent to us unless you place an order, and we never ask for a photograph. How we handle data.

Herringbone Cargo Pants

Measuring for

Herringbone Cargo Pants

Back to the piece

Step 1 of 13

Height

Shoes off, heels together, back against a wall.

Height — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the height measurement. HEIGHT FROM THE FRONT

Stand as tall as you naturally do — not stretching. Mark the wall at the top of your head and measure to the floor.

If you are measuring alone, a book flat on your head against the wall gives a clean mark.

Step 2 of 13

Weight

Approximate is genuinely fine.

It is used only to work out what your other measurements are likely to be, so that we can check them. It is never shown to anyone and never printed on anything.

Round to the nearest five pounds or two kilos if you prefer.

Step 3 of 13

Waist

The natural waist — higher than most people expect.

Waist — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the waist measurement. ✗ NOT HERE NATURAL WAIST FROM THE FRONT

Bend slowly to one side. The crease that forms is your natural waist, usually an inch above the navel. Measure there, with the tape snug but not pulled in.

The mistake to avoid

Not where your jeans sit. The trouser line can be three or four inches lower, and using it is the most common measuring error there is.

Do not hold your stomach in. The garment has to fit you breathing.

Step 4 of 13

Hip

Around the fullest part of the seat.

Hip — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the hip measurement. ✗ NOT HERE FULLEST HIP FROM THE FRONT

Feet together, tape level all the way round, at the fullest point — usually seven to nine inches below the waist.

The mistake to avoid

Not the hip bones. Those are higher and narrower, and using them will make everything read small through the seat.

Feet together matters. Standing with your feet apart changes this measurement.

Step 5 of 13

How you like things to fit

This scales the room each pattern already allows.

Every piece is cut with a certain amount of room in it. This tells us whether to hold you to that, or to lean closer to the body or further from it. It does not change your measurements.

Kept only as a broad band, and only if you order.

If you are unsure, leave it as the piece is cut. That is how the pattern was drafted.

Step 6 of 13

High hip

About four inches below the natural waist, over the hip bones.

High hip — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the high hip measurement. HIGH HIP FROM THE FRONT

This is the one you were told NOT to use for the hip. Measure it here on its own.

It decides whether a skirt or trouser sits smoothly or rides up. Worth the thirty seconds.

Step 7 of 13

Waist to hip

Straight down your side, waist to fullest hip.

Waist to hip — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the waist to hip measurement. WAIST TO HIP FROM THE FRONT

Hold the tape at the natural waist and read where the fullest part of the hip is. Keep it vertical, following your side.

How far down the fullness sits is a separate question from how full it is, and both change where a seam should go.

Step 8 of 13

Inseam

Crotch seam down the inside of the leg to the ankle bone.

Inseam — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the inseam measurement. INSEAM FROM THE FRONT

Far easier from a pair of trousers that already fit: lay them flat and measure the inside leg seam.

Tell us the shoe you will wear it with when you order, and we will hem to that.

Step 9 of 13 optional

Thigh

The fullest part, right up under the seat.

What this one decides Whether a trouser or a fitted skirt binds when you sit down. Skip it and we cut this dimension from the block, which is how every other house does it. Give it and we cut it to you.

Thigh — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the thigh measurement. NOT HERE THIGH FROM THE FRONT

Standing with your weight even on both feet, take the tape around one thigh at its fullest — high up, close under the seat, not halfway down. Keep it level.

The mistake to avoid

Measured with the weight on one leg, or taken halfway down the thigh where it is narrower. Both read small, and a trouser cut to a small thigh binds the moment you sit.

The tape wants to run downhill at the back. Feel round with your other hand to check it has stayed level.

Step 10 of 13 optional

Rise

Front waist, under you, and up to the back waist.

What this one decides Whether a trouser sits where you expect or pulls down all day. Skip it and we cut this dimension from the block, which is how every other house does it. Give it and we cut it to you.

Rise — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the rise measurement. RISE MEASURED SEATED FROM THE FRONT

Sit on a firm chair. Take the tape from your natural waist at the front, down between your legs, and up to your natural waist at the back. Read it while you are seated.

The mistake to avoid

Measured standing. Standing gives a shorter number, and a trouser cut to it pulls down every time you sit — the commonest complaint there is about trousers.

Of the six this is the one most worth the trouble, and the one most worth asking someone to help with. If you would rather not, leave it and we will cut the rise from the block.

Step 11 of 13 optional

Knee

Around the middle of the knee, standing.

What this one decides Only matters on a tapered or fitted leg. Skip it and we cut this dimension from the block, which is how every other house does it. Give it and we cut it to you.

Knee — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the knee measurement. KNEE FROM THE FRONT

Tape around the fullest part of the knee with the leg straight and your weight on it. Snug, not tight.

The mistake to avoid

Taken with the knee bent, which reads larger by an inch or more.

This only changes anything on a tapered or fitted leg. On a straight trouser it makes no difference at all — skip it without a second thought.

Step 12 of 13 optional

Ankle

Around the narrowest part, just above the bone.

What this one decides How a cuff or a narrow hem closes. Skip it and we cut this dimension from the block, which is how every other house does it. Give it and we cut it to you.

Ankle — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the ankle measurement. ANKLE FROM THE FRONT

Bare foot or a thin sock, tape around the narrowest part of the ankle just above the ankle bone.

The mistake to avoid

Taken over a boot or a thick sock. Measure the ankle, and tell us separately if the hem has to clear something.

Only matters where a hem closes — a cuff, a tab, a narrow leg.

Step 13 of 13 optional

Waist, where you actually wear it

Not where your waist is narrowest — where a waistband sits.

What this one decides Where a waistband should actually land, as against where your waist is narrowest. Skip it and we cut this dimension from the block, which is how every other house does it. Give it and we cut it to you.

Waist, where you actually wear it — front view Diagram showing the correct tape position for the waist, where you actually wear it measurement. ✗ NATURAL WAIST WHERE YOU WEAR IT FROM THE FRONT

Put on the trousers or the skirt you reach for most, and measure around the top of the waistband where it sits on you.

The mistake to avoid

This is not the natural waist you gave us earlier. If the two come out the same, leave this one blank rather than repeating it.

Most waistbands sit lower than the natural waist, often by two or three inches. Telling us both is what lets a trouser sit where you expect it to.

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