Cut Profile
Lay a garment flat, take its measurements, and get a file that describes how it is cut.
The form is the easy way in. The data model is the point: read the specification.
Made a file here before? , and it stays the same file.
Shirts, T-shirts, sweaters and cardigans, trousers and jeans for now. The rest of the vocabulary exists, but each category needs its measuring instructions written properly, so they arrive when someone asks for them. Tell us which you want.
Use the size printed on its own, such as XL or 41. Many labels add a grid of conversions (I 46, F 42, D 40…): leave the grid, and choose the system of the size you used.
Leave it empty if you don't know it.
Copy the care label as it is written.
Pull the fabric gently across. If it gives and springs back, it stretches. Most T-shirts are “clearly”; a shirt or jeans with a few percent of elastane on the label is usually “a little”.
The garment is laid flat, fastened, and not stretched. Widths are taken perpendicular to the centre line. Leave out anything you cannot measure rather than estimating it: a gap is useful, a guess is not.
This is about the tape in your hand, not about the garment. A shirt labelled in one country can be measured with any tape: if yours is marked in centimetres, choose centimetres, whatever the size label says.
One garment, one size. If you own the same model in another size, add it: a Cut Profile describes a model, not a single item.
Exactly as written on the garment label.
That does not look like a size of the system chosen above. If the label prints one size and a grid of conversions, use the size on its own and choose its system.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
Exactly as written on the garment label.
That does not look like a size of the system chosen above. If the label prints one size and a grid of conversions, use the size on its own and choose its system.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
Exactly as written on the garment label.
That does not look like a size of the system chosen above. If the label prints one size and a grid of conversions, use the size on its own and choose its system.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
Exactly as written on the garment label.
That does not look like a size of the system chosen above. If the label prints one size and a grid of conversions, use the size on its own and choose its system.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
That looks unusual for this kind of garment. Check the tape and the units — the file will still be made if it is right.
This says where the numbers came from. It does not say they are right.
These four fields ask what the garment was designed to do, not what the tape says. Only whoever drew or produced it can answer them.
Choose the brand or the manufacturer above to fill these in. As the owner of a garment you can measure it exactly, but you cannot know what ease its designer intended, and an invented value is worse than an absent one.
In the units you chose above.
Comma separated. This replaces the reader's own defaults for this category.
The file is checked against the published schema before you can download it.