British Army Sizing help please!

[welshwhit]

Morning folks, just looking for a spot of help about the sizing, specifically of the British army Waterproofs [top and bottom].

I'm 5'4 with about a 40" chest and got confused about the sizing codes!

Thanks in advance!

Drew

 

[Melonfish]

British army sizes are all in CM.
in length you get
small 170cm
Medium 180cm
Large 190cm

in chest widths you get just about everything going from 88cm to 120cm

easiest way to figure this is take your inch measurements and work them out in cm
so you're 5'4" that equates to 64 inches or 1.62m
then chest of 40" so thats 101cm

so i'd say go for a 170/96 or 170/104 if your after it baggy and room to wear jumpers and whatnot underneath.

here's a handy link to drop zone supplies size chart

http://www.army-surplus.co.uk/drop-zone-supplies-sizes.htm

hope that helps some

 

[welshwhit]

Cheers Melonfish

Thats great, cheers!

Drew

 

[Grendel]

Sorry for thread revival but I have two sets of British army hi-leg boots but can’t work out there sizes?

Old faithful pair is 264 L (sadly no longer any grip left )

Newish pair is 264/100 M

Any idea what sizes they are since I’m guessing around size 9 since that’s what I normally take

 

[Itzal]

Sorry for thread revival but I have two sets of British army hi-leg boots but can’t work out there sizes?

Old faithful pair is 264 L (sadly no longer any grip left )

Newish pair is 264/100 M

Any idea what sizes they are since I’m guessing around size 9 since that’s what I normally take

They should say the size on the sole and on the inside of the tounge.

 

[Grendel]

Only size numbers are the ones stated on the soles. Problem is cant find ANY information on NATO boots sizes on web.

 

[Grendel]

Well apparently it called the Mondopoint system.

264 L is 8.5 large widths apparently.
So 264/100 M must be 8.5 Medium widths I presume.
Which I find odd since I take a size 9 normally and every time I’ve bought size 9 UK army boots they have been too big. So i presume UK army boots must be made 1/2 size too big?

http://www.convertworld.com/en/shoe-size/Mondopoint.html

 

[Itzal]

Only size numbers are the ones stated on the soles. Problem is cant find ANY information on NATO boots sizes on web.

Mine have a circle in the arch of the foot with a 11L or 11M in them

 

[Grendel]

Sadly the older style army boots with the plastic sole dont. They only have the size in the rather odd Mondopoint system.