How to measure for suit trousers
1. Waist Measurement
Waist measurements are pretty simple. Lie your trousers flat, measure across the waistband, and simply double that measurement. Easy.
2. Inseam Measurement
This one’s a little trickier. Fold up one of the legs so that it’s out of your way, and locate the point at which the hems meet each other. It should look like a little hem crossroads near your gooch. Like the crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly made a deal with the devil so that he could be class at guitar, except near your gooch.
Once you’ve located that, measure all the way down that seam on the inside leg to the bottom of the leg, and that’s your inseam measurement.
3. Outseam Measurement
No gooch involved here, thank the good lord. Like those trousers flat, choose a leg, and start measuring from where the outside leg hem meets the waistband. Measure all the way down to the bottom of the leg, following the hem, and job’s a good’un.
