Costumer's Help

[Ascanio Giovanni]

I'm looking at ordering a new Trench Coat for a costume piece, but I'm not sure how to determine my size in coats. Can I get some help from those who understand such things? The website gives an option of short, medium or long and sizes of 30 through 52 in each category, but I'm not sure what that size corresponds to.

Please help.

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

Which web site? Sizing can vary from company to company, but most websites have a sizing section where they explain what each size equates to in inches of various relevant portions of anatomy... Though I admit it can take some digging!
Here is a generic one for European sizing, which is what it sounds like it is in:



The length issue is for the overall length of the coat; use Short if your legs are particularly short for your torso size, Medium if you are about average, and Long if your legs are particularly long in proportion to your torso. Somewhere on the website it should give an overall length for each option, but when in doubt medium covers 90% of folks.

Hope this helps...
Julianna

[Ascanio Giovanni]

That helps somewhat. Thanks. It's mostly confusing since it only lists one set of numbers and I'm not sure if it's referring to waist, chest or shoulders.

If anyone has experience ordering from them and may be able to give additional information, it is militarytour.com.

[Athena Fire-in-Snow]

OK, looking at the site, they are a middleman-vendor, so sizing methods vary from product to product, depending on the source. The numbers given for the trenchcoat are not a measurement, they are Europeans sizes. Given that you are proportionally built, order the Medium in whatever size best fits your measurements per the chart I supplied above -- chest is generally the critical measurement, as long as the others are close. So, for example, if your chest measures 38", you would be an EU Men's size 48 (third row from the bottom are EU Men's sizes). If you want me to take measurements of you this weekend and let you know what size you should order, I'd be glad to do that.

[Ascanio Giovanni]

Thanks. That helps a lot.