{"id":104,"date":"2013-05-01T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2013\/05\/01\/measuring-tailored-garments\/"},"modified":"2013-05-01T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:48:00","slug":"measuring-tailored-garments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/measuring-tailored-garments\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Tailored Garments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion of e-commerce sites has created a dilemma of how to address fit in a virtual environment.  The focus of next week&#8217;s convention of the International Association of Clothing Designers and Executives will be on this subject and I am sure I will have lots to report when I get back.  One thing I will bring to readers now is that the methods of measuring garments used by sites like e-bay are driven by sportswear so the terminology used and the actual methods are different than those commonly used in the tailored clothing industry, so if you are only familiar with e-bay or Styleforum conventions, you may end up confused when talking to a tailor or a manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a guide to the terms and methods typically used by tailored clothing manufacturers- some may vary slightly, like the exact level of the knee, but these are pretty much standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21977945@N02\/8697921091\/\" title=\"MEASUREMENTS1 by jefferytailor, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8127\/8697921091_153c1d32c1_c.jpg?resize=618%2C800\" width=\"618\" height=\"800\" alt=\"MEASUREMENTS1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21977945@N02\/8697921421\/\" title=\"MEASUREMENTS2 by jefferytailor, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8554\/8697921421_3e8194ccf3_c.jpg?resize=618%2C800\" width=\"618\" height=\"800\" alt=\"MEASUREMENTS2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion of e-commerce sites has created a dilemma of how to address fit in a virtual environment. The focus of next week&#8217;s convention of<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/measuring-tailored-garments\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-measuring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}