Made to Measure Jodhpurs

Wrap the measuring tape around the widest part of your hips. Keep the measuring tape snug, but not too tight. If you are taking the measurements for a baby, please ensure they are wearing a nappy when you are taking this measurement.

The next measurement will be the ‘waist’ measurement. This is where it will be handy to wear a pair of pants that you are comfortable with, as the waist measurement will be taken from the very top of those pants, rather than using the true waist measurement.

If you do not have a pair of pants to use for the measurements, do the following. For low rise pants, this measurement would be taken from around the hip bone. For high rise pants, measure around the natural waist, usually just above the bell

I will require 4 measurements from various places down the leg. The first measurement is around the top of the thigh, the next is around the knee, the next is the widest part of the calf muscle and finally around the ankle.

This is a measurement that is greatly aided by wearing a pair of pants. This will give you a crotch seam to start your measurements from.

The first measurement that I require as the measurement from the crotch seam, along the inner leg to the knee.

The next measurement will be from the crotch seam, along the inner leg, to the ankle.

If you are looking to have a pair of jodhpurs made up in the straight leg or bootleg cut fits, consider measuring to just past the ankle while wearing shoes

I need the vertical distance from the centre of your crotch to where you want the waistband to sit. The centre of your crotch is not necessarily the lowest point, but rather in the middle of the thighs where the seams will hit.

Starting Point: where you took your waist measurement.

Ending Point: the same vertical level as the middle of your crotch. It may be helpful to use a straight ruler to extend this level out to meet your measuring tape.

I will need this measurement for both front and back.

Using a flexible tape measure, measure from the centre of the crotch to where you would like the top of the front waistband to sit, and again to the back waistband. These waistband points should be the same points that you used to measure the crotch depth in the previous step.

These should be recorded as two separate measurements.