I am so STOKED.

**Dreadbelly** · 13th March 07, 03:41 PM

Oh. I also need to learn the whole metric system and how it applies to tailoring.

Any advice? I uh, am blissfully ignorant of the metric system.

Canadian friends?

**Graywolf** · 13th March 07, 04:06 PM

Metric system is relatively easy. In fact, unbeknownst to most people it is the only legal system in the US. As is typical of those of us whose anscetors left controlling governments, or at least that's what they said, others may just say we were the non-conformists. But I digress.

Any one can correct me if Iam wrong, but the metric measurements are real measurements, e.g., a head size of 75 cm is really 75 cm.

There are 2.54 cm per inch, or too make life easy call it 5 cm in two inches. So a head size of 75 cm would be about 15 inches in circumference.

A meter is about a yard, error is about 8%, i.e., a meter is about 39" or 3" larger than a yard.

A kilogram is 2.2 lbs.

Finally, if mesurements are in millimeters mm, there are 10 mm in a cm or about 50 mm in 2 inches.

I do not deal in metric sizing for clothing, but measure your waist, foot, and head size using a metric tailor's tape, and knowing what your sizes are just set up a little conversion table:

If waist is 32" then you should get a metric measurement of 81 cm, so
take the American mesurement, say 40" multiply by 81 and divide by 32 and you get the cm value. Multiply by 10 for mm instead of cm.

Check what size hat you wear, say its a 7 1/4. Measure the circumference of your head in cm and set up a similar table. A hat size of 7 3/4 would be 7 3/4 * your head in cm and divided by 7 1/4. This should give you the metric equivalent. Once again multiply by 10 for millimeters.