Measuring Help


BASIC SIZE OF YOUR JACKET
When you order your jacket, the choices available for basic sizes are pretty much as per off-the-shelf jacket sizes.

The usual jacket sizes are derived from your chest size.  See below for a full description of where and how that's taken if you don't already know yours.  These sizing brackets correspond to typical mainstream retail sizes, but as you're surely aware, an L in one shop can fit more like an M in the shop right next door.  So the best policy is to choose by the chest measurements we've given in the table below.  Chest measurement is the single most important measurement for a jacket.  And if you find you're between sizes, go for the next size band up.

These are all based on average body sizes.  Please use your own knowledge of what typical jacket/coat size you typically wear otherwise.

EXTRA MEASUREMENTS
We've asked the makers to allow for some extra measurements to be taken into account for each individual jacket.  All very well having a size choice, but what about personal variations such as your arm length?  Here's the details of the measurements we can make use of to better tailor your own Doctor's Jacket.  We don't NEED these of course, and the default sizes used are to fit the average Joe.  But it doesn't hurt to take the time to get at a couple of these measurements to be taken into account.  I'd advise providing a Sleeve Length at the very least.

In researching for this project, it's been found that there are a couple of different descriptions of things like Sleeve Length out there.  For example, it's usually done differently depending on whether you're measuring for a shirt or a jacket/coat.  What we describe here are the ways we've agreed with our jacket makers, so be sute to use these methods to make sure everybody's speaking the same language!

With the help of this drawing of a guy robbed from some 1970's mail-order catalogue, you'll know where exactly we're talking about in the numbered items below.


DOING THE MEASURING
DON'T MEASURE YOURSELF.  Cardinal rule.  Trust me on this - get somebody else to take a tape measure to you.

Take these measurements wearing normal clothing, a shirt or whatever.


1.  SHOULDER
Measure from the base of your neck out to the end of the shoulder/top of the arm as shown in the pic.


2. SLEEVE LENGTH
Starting from the top of your arm measure all the way down the line of your arm, following the curve of your arm (don't hold your arm dead straight), to your wristbone.  ADD at least 1.5".  That's the sleeve length we want.

Alternatively, if you have really big hands, you might want to measure all the way to the knuckle of your pinkie finger and SUBTRACT 1.5".  Use your own judgement - for example, notice where on your hand your sleeve comes to on an existing jacket you own which you feel has a good sleeve length.

You can double-check your work on 1 and 2 by measuring all the way from the base of the neck to the wristbone - the figure should of course equal the sum of 1 and 2.



3. BACK WIDTH
This is the measurement across your back from shoulder bone to shoulder bone, as shown.


4. JACKET LENGTH
This type of jacket should ideally come down to about the bottom your butt.  Measure from the bottom of your collar to where shown on the drawing.


5 . CHEST
Just in case you don't know your chest size, here's how you find it;  Measure around the fullest part of your chest, which is just a little under your arms.  Breathe normally!  Stick a finger under the tape to allow for some breathing room, and don't pull too tight.


IMPORTANT:  Remember these measurements are used by the makers as a whole in creating a jacket to give a good fit for person providing them.  That doesn't mean that any particular measurement on the finished jacket itself will correspond exactly to the figures submitted, but that it will be a good fit for a person OF those measurements.  Just in case you wondered.






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