Shirting
Tell the house your sex, your height and your weight, then photograph the T-shirt whose fit you like best. The house measures it and matches it to the Sceptre Crew. The chart below carries every measurement if you would rather work from a tape.
Centre the shirt inside the outline
The chart
Every figure is the garment itself, laid flat. Measure a shirt you already own the same way and the closest column is your size. The Sceptre Crew is cut in three sizes, the same for men and women.
| Measurement | S | M | L |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body length | 64 | 66 | 68 |
| Chest width, flat | 56 | 59 | 62 |
| Raglan sleeve, from the neck | 73 | 75 | 77 |
| Neck opening | 16 | 17 | 18 |
The photograph does most of the work. The house reads the chest width and the length off the shirt you send, using the A4 sheet to set the scale, and finds the size of ours that lies closest. Without the sheet it can only estimate from proportion, and it says so. Height and weight are the cross-check — they give a chest measurement, not a certainty — and if they point somewhere different you are told. Send no photo and height and weight alone still return a size. A tape across your own shirt, armpit to armpit, beats all of it.
The Sceptre Crew is cut for a straight body line and sized the same for men and women — S, M and L, and nothing either side. The sex you give is used only to estimate your chest from your height and weight; it does not send you to a different block, because there isn't one. If your shirt or your build falls outside S to L, you are told plainly rather than sold a size that will not sit right.
Take the larger. Twelve-gauge cotton and merino relaxes across the chest over the first few wears and will not come back; the smaller size is only right if you want the piece close and are prepared for it to stay that way.