Inches on the page, not just a letter
UEULoose, oversized womenswear

Two numbers in, most of the range out

Fit finder

Set your waist and hip in inches. Anything we have not charted for those numbers drops out of the grid below, and what stays shows the size letter it lands on.

22 in42 in
32 in56 in

Not sure where to hold the tape? Two minutes on measuring.

Why the hip slider behaves oddly

The Hip column does not mean the same thing on every UEU listing, and the arithmetic gives it away. On the wide leg lounge pants the Small row prints a 22.5 inch waist beside a 43.7 inch hip. Nobody has a 21 inch difference between the two, so that hip figure is the garment measured flat and doubled, not a body. On the flowy wide leg pants the Small row reads 27 to 28 in the waist and 38 to 39 in the hip, a difference of eleven inches, which is an ordinary human shape.

So we sort the tables before comparing anything. Where the gap on the first row is over fourteen inches we treat the column as the garment and ask a different question: is the garment wide enough to pass your hips. Where the gap is small we treat it as a body measurement and check that your number falls inside the printed band. Across our range 43 charted pieces fall on the garment side and 8 on the body side.

The waist column is the one that picks the size. The hip only ever rules a piece out, it never rules one in.

How the matching works

A piece with a table gives one band per size, printed like 25.5 to 26.5 inches at the waist. Your two numbers are compared against those bands, and the first size that holds both wins. No formula and no opinion about how much ease you should leave.

If a piece vanishes when you move the hip slider, we have not charted your hip for any size in it. Better to learn that here than from a parcel.

Where the sliders stop

Both ends come from the tables themselves. Push either slider to the edge and you are standing at the widest band we print anywhere, which is a narrower world than the size letters suggest.

When two sizes both work

You get the first match, reading each table from the top. On a drawstring waist that is usually the one you want, since you can pull in what is loose. On a fixed elastic band with no tie, take the larger of the two instead.

One warning about the numbers

These are body measurements, not garment measurements, on most of the tables here. A few of our tables mix the two in the same grid: inseam and total length describe the trousers, waist and hip describe you. The finder ignores the garment columns for that reason.

What is charted, by section

The other 27 pieces cannot appear here, and for three different reasons. 18 of them do carry a table, it just measures the bust and never mentions the waist, which is what this filter compares. 4 come with no table at all. And 5 are the smocked waist palazzo pants, whose waist column measures the band lying flat rather than a body: comparing your waist against a 20 inch figure would answer the wrong question, so we leave them out and say so. All three kinds still have their own pages.