Buying clothes online

June 28, 2011 2:03 AM

What are the best websites to buy clothes online for someone with unusual body measurements?

- Websites that let you input your specific body measurements.
- Customers are actually satisfied with the outcome.
- European shops preferred.
- Shoes also.

posted by dfreire to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (5 answers total)

Men's or Women's clothing? Business or casual?

For Men's shirts and pants, I've used Modern Tailor. European styling on the shirts is available and they ship worldwide.

Other advice for these type of sites:
If you have any clothing that fits well, I'd suggest using measurements from those garments rather than body measurements. If you don't have any clothing that fits well, I would suggest getting your body measurements taken at a tailor.
posted by 2ghouls at 5:22 AM on June 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

If you are shopping for women's, then MyShape.com does this (although it appears to be closed for redesign at the moment). They don't make custom clothes. Rather they use your measurements to match off the rack clothes that will fit your body best.
posted by kimdog at 6:09 AM on June 28, 2011

There are many shops on Etsy where the seller will custom-make your clothes for you.
posted by jillithd at 7:09 AM on June 28, 2011

It's not custom tailoring, but Lands End sells men's shirts and pants in fairly fine-grained sizes — where commonly off the rack garments might be available in 2" increments of waist size or arm length, they often offer 1" granularity, will custom-tailor inseams to the 1/4", run into the lower end of the big-and-tall range, and depending on the garment, offer variations in rise. (and they'll monogram almost anything). They do assume symmetry, however, and 26" appear to be their minimum inseam.
posted by mumkin at 8:00 AM on June 28, 2011

Duoboots does knee-high boots in measured calf widths, and shoes in widths as well.
posted by nat at 8:54 AM on June 28, 2011