By doing this step you will have an accurate measurement of your inner leg length.

How to measure leg length for pants. Run a tape measure along the cuff. Lay the pants down on a flat surface, face up. Watch out for the bottom of the crotch, and make sure that it is visible.

You can wear socks or bare feet. Pant leg opening measurements may change 1/8″ for each size up or down. How to measure dress trousers and casual pants waist width.

Stand as tall as you can without arching your back. Wherever the ruler hit my abdomen was the location of the grain line at the hip level. Grab your favorite pair of pants and lay the bottom cuff flat.

How to measure the leg opening on pants. Wrap a measuring tape around the narrowest midpoint of the body, usually at the waistline, about the level of the navel. You need to be below the ribs and above the hips, which should work out to be just above the belly button.

Use your hands to spread the pants out flat, with the. To measure the rise on women's pants, first locate the intersection of the inseam at the crotch. I measured from the center front out to the ruler.

Inside leg and true leg length. You should be measuring the waist around the belly button area. From center front at my hip, my grain line is 3.