Tailors are now not allowed to measure the "inside leg"!

How ridiculous! That's like going for a bra fitting and measuring your waist!

OMG - how utterly stupid - so now we'll have a lot of ill fitted suits.

They could give the tape measure to the customer to hold in their own crotch, couldn't they, while they deal with the bit at the ankle?

Besides, how silly to call it "inappropriate" touching when, clearly, it is appropriate for measuring an inside leg!

Sigh.

I wonder if this is a universal ruling for all tailors or just one particular soppy company? I can't imagine that any man would be prepared to pay, say, Saville Row prices for ill-fitting trousers as a result of not being properly measured.

Pathetic.

ella have to take my bra measurement round my knees..

What on earth have gay rights got to do with it anyway?
Can't get my head round that...

And I suppose they will no longer be able to enquire "which side Sir dresses" in case that is interpreted as "which side Sir bats for"!!!

I've searched online for this new ruling, and can find no trace of it (other than biker's post!).

Many years ago I worked in a men's department of a large clothes store and when measuring men's inside leg you just handed one end of the tape measure to the customer to hold at the crutch area and I recorded the length holding the other end of the tape.. we always did it that way even my male colleagues.. sounds like stuff and nonsense to me..

Ooh! Suit you, Sir...

Oh no, getting my inside leg measured is one of the few thrills left to me nowadays.

Another one is being frisked at the airport.

I wonder if that will be stopped as well.

Bags.......thats what we did at the posh Ladies and genlteman's retailer I used to work for, naming no names!

petallus......you should travel with me, that lot in the US always give me a good seeing to as I always ring the alarms bells.

Now....who would we LIKE to measure our inside leg? I can think of one or two!!

The chap who played judge John Deed. I can never remember the names of actors.

Ana yep that is what we were told on Saturday..his words were."we are not allowed to measure the inside leg now" not sure if just that perticular tailors , I didn't ask...he just said that 2 Tailors were prosicuted for doing such thing... so I don't know if it's common practice (I don't mean inoproppiate touching, I mean measuring) ..so DD didn't argue we are in Lancashire so I don't know if it extends further but he did mention London.

jeni you mean the lovely Martin Shaw

I did discover from my Google search that a tailor had been prosecuted for inappropriate behaviour when measuring a ^woman's* inside leg.....

It probably wasnt the measuring that cause the problem but the other activity he fitted in at the same time. Its like not getting undressed for a medical examination because some doctors have been prosecuted for inapropriate behaviour.

I'm always hopeful for a good frisking at an airport because I always set the alarms off. Sadly they always bring out a female officer who looks like Mike Tyson when I was thinking more George Clooney.

Thanks all. Had a good laugh. Better because not expected.