The measurement board

In short: measure your chest or bust once. A 48 inch bust is a 4XL at most Indian brands and a 6XL at Amydus, whose own chart cuts its 4XL for a 44 inch bust. Both numbers are published. This page reads each brand's chart and tells you what to ask for.

Most size calculators give you one letter back. That is not much use, because there is no such thing as your size — only your size at a brand, and the brands do not agree with each other.

Amydus cuts its 4XL for a 44 inch bust. The general Indian convention puts a womenswear 4XL at 48 inches. Same label, four inches apart, which is a full size. Order the 4XL because that is what you always are and it will not close.

So this page does not give you a size. It gives you a brand, your size at that brand, and where the number came from.

Three measurements, with a soft tape, in inches or centimetres. Only the first is needed.

Chest or bust. Around the fullest part, over a t-shirt. Keep the tape level all the way round — letting it ride up at the back reads two or three inches small and puts you a size down. Breathe normally and do not pull it tight.

Waist. Where you actually wear your waistband, not the narrowest part of your torso. Above 4XL those are often not the same place, and the waistband is the one that has to do up.

Hip. The fullest part, feet together. This decides dresses, kurtas and anything cut straight from the shoulder. Most menswear charts leave it out.

Round to the nearest half inch.

What a size is cut for when the brand publishes nothing. These are body measurements, not garment ones.

The rungs are four inches apart, so holding the tape three inches wrong is most of a size. Between sizes is a real place to be.

A body chart is the size of the person. A garment chart is the size of the clothes, measured flat, and it is always bigger.

Amydus and Big Banana both print a number against 4XL and they are eleven inches apart. Amydus says 44 inches, meaning a bust. Big Banana says 55 inches, meaning a shirt laid flat — which fits about a 51 inch chest.

The gap between them is the ease: the room cut in beyond the body. Roughly 4 inches on a t-shirt, 5 on a shirt, 7 on a jacket and 1 on jeans, which is why jeans feel like a different system.

This page takes the ease back off a garment chart before comparing anything, and labels every brand body or garment so you can check.

Three things, kept separate rather than blended into one score.

Fit is how close that brand's nearest size is to your body, in inches. It counts for the most, and nothing else makes up for a bad number.

In stock is how many pieces that brand has in your size right now. A brand that fits you well with four things left is a worse answer than one that fits nearly as well with four hundred.

Certainty is where the number came from. A chart the brand sent us scores highest, one we read off their website next, our own convention lowest — because a convention is exactly what gets people the wrong size.

Chest is not the whole garment. We pick a size on your chest or bust, then check the waist and hip where the brand publishes them. We know nothing about your shoulders, arm length or rise, and above 4XL those go wrong in ways a chest measurement does not predict. Short sleeves and tight armholes are the two commonest complaints a correct chest size does not prevent.

Stock is as fresh as last night. Counts come from each store's own feed, refreshed overnight. Four pieces this morning can be none by evening.

A published chart is not a measured garment. We read what brands print; we have not put a tape to their clothes. Where a brand's chart is optimistic, our answer inherits it — and says the chart is theirs.

Three brands publish nothing we can read. For those we fall back to the ladder above and say so on every row. If you work at one of them, send us your chart — it takes about five minutes.

Size charts come from each brand's own public size-chart page. We track 72 brands and 69 publish something we can read; charts were last re-read on 8 September 2026.

Stock comes from each store's public product feed, refreshed overnight. At the last run the catalogue held 5,736 items from 2XL to 10XL across six storefronts, read on 16 September 2026.

Where a brand publishes nothing, we use the Indian extended-size convention in the ladder above — roughly 46 is a 3XL, 48 a 4XL, 50 a 5XL, rising four inches a size. It is a convention and we treat it as one: every row resting on it is labelled our draft rather than passed off as the brand's.

Two things we will not do. We do not carry a generic waist or hip table, because we would have to invent one, and an invented number that looks measured is worse than no number. And we cannot tell when a brand's own chart is simply wrong — checking catches typing errors, not a chart that never matched the clothes.