Measure Yourself

These guides will take you through a simple step by step process allowing you to measure yourself for a Barrington Ayre bespoke shirt, Jacket, Suit, or Trousers.

All you will need is yourself, a tape measure, a pencil or pen and some paper. You can also get someone else to measure you if that is easier. Once you have your details the best thing to do is store your measurements in your online account and these will automatically be netered into the measurement fields each time you come to make a bespoke purchase. If you haven't already got an account the first thing to do is register with us. At the top right of every page you will see Login, follow this link to create an account and you will find your measurements area where you can store your details and edit them in the future.

Measure yourself for a BESPOKE SHIRT

Shirts

All measurements are in centimetres

Neck measurement – take the tape measure around your neck and hold it where it is comfortable as if you were wearing your shirt buttoned up. If you are worried simply write down your normal collar size in cm’s.

Chest Measurement – Take the tape measure around your chest, right up underneath your armpits and across your nipples. Make sure that you are relaxed and that you are not pushing out your chest. Make sure that you take a body measurement as we will do the rest.

Waist Measurement – Take the tape measure around where your bottom rib is. This is usually very close to your belly button and isn’t your trouser measurement. Make sure that you are relaxed and that you are not holding your stomach in. Again make sure that this is a body measurement and is tight to your skin as we will do the rest.

Arm Length – Take the tape measure from where your shoulder bone joins your arm. On a shirt this is the shoulder seam but make sure that it is right on where your shoulder joins your arm. Put your hand on your hip as if you were creating the handle of a tea pot and take the tape measure down over your elbow and down to where you want your cuff to finish .

Shoulder Measurement – Take the tape measure across the back of your shoulders directly across your back, from one shoulder edge to the other.

Shirt Length – take your tape measure from the bottom of your collar at the back of your shirt, straight down to where you want your shirt to finish. The average length for a good length shirt that you don’t want to pop out when you move is down to the bottom of your buttocks. For people who like to wear their shirts out then this measurement will be more likely to be half way down your buttocks.

Cuff – Take the tape measure around your wrist and take the measurement from where you would either like your cuff links to be if you are ordering a double cuff shirt or to where your buttons would fasten if you are going for a button cuffed shirt.

 

Measure yourself for a BESPOKE SUIT / JACKET & TROUSERS

Jacket

Chest – Take the tape measure under your armpits and across the widest part of your chest which is usually across the nipples. Make sure that you can get about a clenched fist in between the tape measure and your chest and record this measurement

Tummy – This measurement is basically where your jacket will do up. It is usually the widest part of your tummy but if you take the tape measure around where your last rib is then this is a pretty good marker. Take the tape measure around and take the measurement at the front and hold the tape measure as if your jacket was being done up and this is the measurement to put down

Seat – Take the tape measure around your bottom and make sure that it is not tight and then send us this measurement

Length – This is the measurement from the middle of your collar at the back of your neck where the collar finishes and the jacket back starts. Take the tape measure down the middle seam at the back of your jacket and let us have the measurement where you would like your jacket to finish. If you have a jacket that you really like the length of the best thing is to measure that jacket and send us those measurement.

Arm Length – Take the tape measure from where you want the cuff of your jacket to end and then take it up your arm and where the top of the arm joins the shoulder of your jacket send us this measurement

1/2 back – If you have a jacket that you like the fit of, take the tape measure from the middle of the back of the neck at the bottom of the collar down 5 inches along the centre seam. Start your measurement from here and measure from the middle seam to where the seam joins the arm. This is the 1/2 back. If you are a bit confused simply measure from shoulder to shoulder and then half it and that will give you the same measurement.

Trousers

Waist - Take the tape measure around the top of where your trouser normally sit. Pull the tape measure tight and then let it out slowly until you are comfortable with the fit. The measurement will probably be about 2 inches bigger than the size of trouser you buy off the shelf.

Seat – Take the tape measure around the widest part of your bottom. Then squat down so that the tape measure isn’t tight, stand up again and give us this measurement.

Outside leg – Take the tape measure down the outside seam of your trousers right down to where you want them to sit on your shoe. It is always worth wearing a pair of shoes for this measurement so that you get it spot on

Inside leg – Make sure that you pull the trousers up to where you want the crotch to be and measure from the seam in between your legs down to where you wish your trouser bottoms to sit. If you have a difference between your outside leg measurement and your inside leg measurement that is more than 10 or 11 inches then it is worth re-measuring.

Trouser bottom – Take the tape measure around the bottom of your leg and fix it to the width that you like. A typical straight English cut of trouser is around 16 inches and a more boot like fit is around 18 inches.

If you have any problems or questions please do give us a call on 0845 300 9014 or 01285 689 431 or via email info@barringtonayre.co.uk and we will help you. We can do this over the phone or can even give you a call over Skype and go through the measurements with you.

 

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TAKING YOUR MEASUREMENTS

To measure yourself please use our simple, easy to follow, bespoke shirt self measurement guide by clicking here  and also use our self measurement video by clicking here

To measure yourself for a bespoke suit then please use our bespoke suit measurement guide by clicking here & you can also click here to see the self measurement video