Measurements
If I have pants that fit me well, can I measure those and use those measurements when shopping?
If I have pants that are long, can I fold the hem and measure the “new” inseam and use that measurement?
Can I pin parts of the pant and take those measurements and use them?
Is there a difference when measuring jeans vs chinos vs other types of pants?
Can I do similar things with shirts?
Seeing if I could save money/time from the tailor.
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Yes! Best practice is to use clothes that fit you best and go off those measurements.
I’m not sure if there’s much difference between which type of pants you’re measuring 🤔
Yes
Yes (but you should try them on with that new hem pinned so you know what they look like)
There's some difference in stretch jeans and wool trousers will stretxh a touch more than say a tightly woven Chino
Yes you can
I stand corrected lol
If I have pants that fit me well, can I measure those and use those measurements when shopping?Yes
If I have pants that are long, can I fold the hem and measure the “new” inseam and use that measurement?Yes
Can I pin parts of the pant and take those measurements and use them?Yes
Is there a difference when measuring jeans vs chinos vs other types of pants?Not really or maybe sort of. You might want to style jeans, chinos, wool pants, etc, differently. In other words, you might wants your jeans more slim than wool pants, for example. Or as another example, denim is going to drape and break differently than wool. But if you want them to fit exactly the same, apart from rather minor differences in cloth thickness, you could have exactly the same measurements for them.
Can I do similar things with shirts?Yes The only thing I'd caution against is thinking that there is one golden set of measurements that will work for everything in all cases. I mean, there sort of can be, but it would be very middle-ground and not allow you to do some things you might want to do, or embrace some looks you might want to embrace. Like if I look at my wool trousers, I have some that are fairly full-cut and tend to have pleats, some more classic cut, and some fairly slim. They obviously measure differently. But they all fit me. Some have no break, some half break, some full break. You can't really get a proper break with pants too slim to go over shoes, they just end up crumpling at the hem, rather than breaking over the shoe they just sort of break in place, not my favorite look, so because of that, full-cut wool trousers can be exactly the same inseam as slim-cut trousers, but they can also be an inch or inch and a half longer. Similarly, full-cut trousers tend to look better with a high rise than slim, to me, so my slim stuff tends to be mid-high at most rather than properly high rise. On the other hand, all my jeans are low rise and no-break, because, as I've learned, when I go the next inseam up in jeans they just end up getting the hems stepped on and worn down. So if I translate my jeans measurement precisely to my wool trouser measurement it would certainly fit but not quite the way I always want to, usually I prefer at least mid rise rather than low rise. So in summary, I basically have one measurement for jeans I am currently very happy with, a modest range of measurements for chinos, and a large range of measurements for more formal wool (or adjacent) trousers, and pretty much exactly one measurement for formal trousers, all of which have overlap with other categories but are not the same. I hope this helps.
This is very helpful and understandable. I have a couple of chinos that are light weight and are a little shorter so they show some ankle bone. If I were to buy more of those I would measure those pants.
Now I need to find brands that fit those measurements lol