Methodology
The size is a claim. We check it.
Hemwise compares your body, measured with a tape, against garments measured the same way.
How garments are measured
Where we hold a measurement, it was taken laid flat: pit to pit, shoulder seam to shoulder seam, waistband edge to edge. Each figure keeps its source and measuring method, so a chest circumference and a flat pit-to-pit never share a column. Where several observations cover one dimension, we take the median and screen the outliers.
- garments tracked
- 12,344
- garments tracked
- with real measurements
- 5,277
- with real measurements
- tape measurements on file
- 153,137
- tape measurements on file
- brands
- 55
- brands
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What the numbers mean
Your measurements are scored against each size’s numbers, weighted by what matters for the category: shoulders count most on a shirt, since no alteration moves a shoulder seam.
Results are ordered by fit estimate, then by how centred your body sits in the garment’s range, then by how well-evidenced its measurements are. Affiliate commissions do not affect the order.
For example: a chest measured 20.75in flat, pit to pit, doubles to about 41.5in around the body. Held against a 40in body chest, that is roughly 1.5in of extra room — the garment’s wearing ease. This is an illustrative arithmetic example, not a claim about any specific garment.
What we refuse to do
Where we hold no measurements, we say so and score nothing. Today that is 7,067 of 12,344 garments: a size run on record, no tape.
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