Question for Kate Dicey

Hold the presses :) I found the article explaining in detail how to measure for men's pants! I include the website for anyone with the same question

You take them in just the same way as women's measurements, in just the same places. Call it 'chest' rather than 'bust', and the rest are the same. The dangly bits only matter when you come to make tailored trousers, when a little ease is built in on the inner leg seam of the side they 'dress' (i.e. the side the dangly bits dangle!).

If your hubby is a bit bothered about you taking an inseam measurement, get him to hold the end of tape up in the crotch where the 4 seams meet. But honestly, there's no need for such coyness after the wedding night, is there? ;)

ROFLOL

I read your response to my husband and he enjoyed the dangly bits and that I was to tell you that he is not shy, he'll let anybody dangle his bits hahahaha. Hmmmm should I be checking his pockets for mysterious phone numbers hahahaha!

Just BREEZE'ng

Hehehe.. It's what I used to tell the lads when they had to be measured for costumes when I was teaching. Tailors sometimes use a tape measure with a stiffened end to poke up there without handling the customer too much for comfort, but I always thought that it would be too easy to poke too hard, and while there are many I'd like to prevent producing future generations, these were the grammar school lads and might go on to be an asset to the gene pool...

Our local grammar school is still going strong, and this was only five or six years ago. James has just passed his 11+ and secured a place there. It's a typical uni sausage machine, with the added bonus of sports speciality status, and should suit him very well.

For the uninitiated, grammar schools select their pupils on ability, based on an exam taken in February of year six. James got 121 for verbal reasoning, 129 for maths, and 140 (full marks) for non-verbal reasoning, so we are very pleased with him. SATs are done over the next couple of weeks, and we hope he hasn't gone off the boil after the good news. I liked to use a combination of course/class work and exam to assess students, as you always get some who are idle but pull it off on the day, some who are excellent but don't do well in the exam, and the occasional one who is snookered by illness (like a classmate of James who I expected to pass with flying colours but who failed, probably due to running a temperature of 104 on the day he sat the exam!). The Combination gives a clearer picture of actual ability and performance than an exam alone, as was done in my school days.

Most of my students at this school were headed for university. People keep telling me it's far too soon to think about that with James, but as he would be part of the fourth generation of university educated people in my immediate family, it will be more unusual if he DOESN'T go! I'd never force him, but going to this school will make it easier if he does choose to go in six or seven years time. Financially, we need to start preparing now if it's to be possible then.

That's great news about James. I agree the new assessment method sounds fairer. I always found exams a breeze but remember many class mates who were physically sick at the thought of exams.

It's never too early to th>> Oh those were the days - grammar schools etc. I seem to remember that