Shoulder Seam Measurement for Suit Jackets

Video Transcript

"To determine your jacket length, you're going to want to get two measurements, and the first measurement I'm going to go over is the measurement on the front. So, what you want to do is determine your shoulder seam, up at the top. And that's where you're going to put the measuring tape, and you're going to start the measuring tape at the shoulder seam, and you're going to follow it down and you're going to put it exactly where you want your jacket to end, where that final seam at the bottom is going to hit. And that is your front jacket length, from the shoulder seam in the middle, down through the chest and then, finally, coming to an end at where the jacket is going to stop. And I'll show you how that looks on a flat drawing so it makes sense. So what we did is we started it from the shoulder seam, right here, and then all the way down to where the jacket is to hit. So you want this to be specific, you can decide where you want it to hit; right here so from the shoulder down."