This guide will take you through a simple step by step process allowing you to measure yourself for a Barrington Ayre bespoke shirt.

All you will need is yourself, a tape measure, a pencil or pen and some paper. You can also get someone else to measure you if that is easier.

All measurements are in centimetres

1. Neck measurement – take the tape measure around your neck and hold it where it is comfortable as if you were wearing your shirt buttoned up. If you are worried simply write down your normal collar size in cm’s.

2. Chest Measurement – Take the tape measure around your chest, right up underneath your armpits and across your nipples. Make sure that you are relaxed and that you are not pushing out your chest. Make sure that you take a body measurement as we will do the rest.

3. Waist Measurement – Take the tape measure around where your bottom rib is. This is usually very close to your belly button and isn’t your trouser measurement. Make sure that you are relaxed and that you are not holding your stomach in. Again make sure that this is a body measurement and is tight to your skin as we will do the rest.

4. Arm Length – Take the tape measure from where your shoulder bone joins your arm. On a shirt this is the shoulder seam but make sure that it is right on where your shoulder joins your arm. Put your hand on your hip as if you were creating the handle of a tea pot and take the tape measure down over your elbow and down to where you want your cuff to finish .

5. Shoulder Measurement – Take the tape measure across the back of your shoulders directly across your back, from one shoulder edge to the other.

6. Shirt Length – take your tape measure from the bottom of your collar at the back of your shirt, straight down to where you want your shirt to finish. The average length for a good length shirt that you don’t want to pop out when you move is down to the bottom of your buttocks. For people who like to wear their shirts out then this measurement will be more likely to be half way down your buttocks.

7. Cuff – Take the tape measure around your wrist and take the measurement from where you would either like your cuff links to be if you are ordering a double cuff shirt or to where your buttons would fasten if you are going for a button cuffed shirt.