Your Size - How to measure for the perfect shirt fit

Men's Shirts

Men's Tailoring

Jacket - Chest Size

Measure the fullest part of the chest under the arms to get your chest measurement. You should have allow half an inch space at the front of the jacket as that allows you to see the curvature of the jacket and the silhouette. If the jacket pulls across the centre button, then it is too small and if the space at the front is more than half an inch, the jacket will look square and unstructured. Your suit lapel should also lie nice and flat – if it’s bowing, then that shows the jacket is too small.

Jacket - Sleeve Length

The edge of the jacket cuff should sit where the hand meets the wrist and the thumbline should always be uncovered.

Jacket - Length

Most of our suit jackets come in 3 different lengths, Short, Regular and Long. To work out the right length for you, use the rule of thumb – if you extend your arm and your thumb fully, the edge of the jacket should sit where the tip of your thumb is. An extra check for length is at the back – the bottom of the jacket should sit where the buttock line stops and the upper leg starts to drop.

Trousers - Waist Size

Suits normally work on a 6" drop, so if your chest size is 38", you subtract 6 inches to get your waist size, so in this case your waist size will normally be 32". You can also use a tape measure to measure your natural waistline. There should be half an inch (or the width of 3 fingers) between your body and your trouser waistband. You can mix and match all of our jacket and trouser sizes rather than being limited to the standard 6" drop rule so you can choose whatever size fits your exact measurements.

Trousers - Inside Leg Length

All our suit trousers are unfinished, so you will need to know your leg length for our free hemming service so that they can be hemmed to fit you perfectly. To work this out, measure from the crotch to the point at which your trouser is normally worn at the shoe. You should get a single break in the trouser just where the fabric hits the bridge of the shoe and at the back, the fabric should sit just on the top of the shoe heel – this shows that the leg length is correct.

Men's Tailoring Size Chart

Men's Knitwear

100% Merino Wool knitwear to wear over your shirt – hand wash.

Women's Shirts

Our women’s shirt sizing tends to come up fairly generous, so if you normally buy a size 14 on the high street, a size 12 will probably fit you in our shirts but the best thing is to try one on. Our free UK and US returns policy means you can do this without any risk and work out the right size for you. To measure yourself, follow the tips below:

Bust

Measure around the fullest part of your bust and across the shoulder blades.

Waist

Measure around natural waistline.

Women's Tailoring

To measure yourself for a suit jacket, the same rules apply as for a shirt – bust and waist. All our suit trousers are unhemmed so you need to measure your inside leg length and provide that when ordering so that we can get your trousers hemmed to the correct length.