European Size Conversion

How does this European size conversion work?

This is a great lifestyle tool you can use whenever you are shopping online for clothes or when you go abroad and plan to buy something but you don’t know the dimensions used. These can be quite complicated at times, especially doing the Europe to US or UK conversions.

This is why the European size conversion has thought of your struggles and helps you determine all the measurements you might need in the United States, the United Kingdom, all over Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. And because we want you to customize your input you can also choose from the type of clothes you want sizes for, depending on your gender. Therefore ladies will have to decide between dresses, blouses/sweaters, bottoms or shoes while gentlemen from suit/coats, shirts, t-shirts, hats and shoes. Once you fill in the 4 fields you will receive a table will all the necessary conversion for your values so you are ready to continue shopping or get an idea what you should expect.

Do you know what EN13402 stands for?

This is the European standard for labeling clothes sizes and uses body and product dimensions plus an ad hoc size as a number or code.

Do you know which are the body dimensions used when assigning clothing sizes? These are called girths and are taken at the following levels: head, neck, chest, bust, underbust, waist, hip and of course the height and some lengths such as leg, arm or foot. So if it were for you to try and find the perfect measurements for you then you would have to take account of all these. Any clothing item takes account of at least one of these measurements. In the table below you will find some examples and their guidelines.

Clothing letter codes

The following table presents you with the letter sizes for clothes and their meaning plus the corresponding dimensions in cm of the range for chest girth for men and bust girth for women.