When we buy a new piece of clothing, be it a sweater, trousers, shirt or dress, we want to make our image attractive and beautiful. Wrongly chosen clothing size spoils the whole impression of appearance. A small thing, tight to the body, clearly emphasizes all the flaws of the figure, and too much - sloppy dangles. That is why you should know how to determine the size of clothes for your figure.
In order for clothes to look beautiful and elegant on you, you need to know some nuances about how to determine your size correctly. Before you start measuring parameters, you need to know that there are several size tables: domestic (common in the CIS countries), European, American and international.
Clothing size is essentially an alphabetic or numeric code that corresponds to the parameters of a person's body or some specific part (s) of it, for which a specific piece of clothing is intended. How to determine the size of clothes? The size can be found on the tag, which is attached to the clothes, on the shoes it is indicated on the insole or sole. Despite different marking systems, each of them takes human height as a basis. Important parameters are also the circumference of the waist, hips and chest.
How to take your measurements correctly?
- Height. In order to correctly measure your height, you will need outside help, a ruler and a pencil. Become barefoot with your back against the wall, trying not to hunch over. The ruler is placed on the head, a straight line is drawn from the top of the head to the wall, where a pencil mark is made. Now, using a ruler or meter, calculate the distance from the floor to the mark.
- Bust. You will need a flexible tape meter. Wrap a centimeter around your chest so that it passes through all the protruding points. To obtain an accurate result, repeat the measurement procedure again.
- Waist is also measured using a centimeter. When measuring the waist, do not pull in the stomach, otherwise the indicator will be incorrect.
- Hip circumference. Measured about 15-18 centimeters below the waist at the most protruding points of the buttocks.
When taking measurements of your body, pass the measuring tape over your underwear, while not trying to pull it. Now, knowing your parameters, you can determine the size of clothes using a special table. Knowing your domestic size, you can easily determine the corresponding European or American size.
How to determine the size of menclothes
- You need to measure your height and hips as shown above.
- The main parameter for determining the size of men's clothing is the chest girth, it is measured at the widest point.
- Typically men's shirts are sized according to their neck circumference.
Now, knowing the parameters of the male body, we can easily determine the size of clothes. Having parameters 170/85-89/75, a man wears size 44 according to the domestic clothing labeling system. To determine subsequent sizes, add 2/6/4 cm to these parameters, respectively. It is convenient that European clothing sizes are fully consistent with Russian ones. And in order to determine the American size, you need to subtract 10 from the already known domestic one.
After reading this article, you have an idea of how to determine the size of clothes for yourself and your soul mate correctly. Happy shopping!
