Please stand up straight and relax your arms.

How to measure your chest for a jacket. The chest is the most important body part for jacket measurement. You can add one to two inches for a casual jacket since you don’t want it to be a tight fit. Chest underarm measurement wrap the measuring tape.

Measure the chest circumference under the arms at the fullest part of the chest, keeping the measuring tape horizontal around. Traditionally measured from the center back which is the top center of jacket back where it meets the collar seam see picture on left below to the floor and then divided by 2. To measure the circumference of your bust:

Please stand up straight and relax your arms. If you measure 40 inches around your chest, then your chest size is 40 inches and,. Wrap a flexible tape measure around.

Typically, this is at the nipples. If your actual chest is 42, you must select our medium sized jacket, if your actual. Optimally, you can ask another person to wrap a tape.

Measure around the fullest part of your chest. Lift your arms and ask your trusted measuring partner to wrap the tape measure around your chest area. Take a measuring tape and wrap it around thefullest part of your chest (under your armpits).

Stand sideways to a mirror and find the most full portion of your breasts. How to measure your chest the chest is the main part that needs to be measured as it is the widest part of your body and where jackets are concerned, you need full insulation. Hold the measuring tape at the edge of your shoulder (the armhole), and measure straight down to where your wrist meets your hand.