Height has nothing to do with it, inside leg measurement is what matters.

I'm 6' and I wear a 30" leg, sometimes a 32" depending on cut and style. Whereas my very leggy Swedish wife who is 5'11" has a 36" inside leg.

"72 inches of therapy" as Julia Roberts expressed it in Pretty Woman, while nekkid in the tub with RG!

 

for some reason, they don't seem to cover my loafer that i was wearing. Like imagine you are wearing a loafer and the pants while you are standing up, doesn't cover it all so you can see your socks. Are those dress pants too short?

A reason I don't wear loafers is because they are shaped/cut lower than, say, laced shoes. I have my trousers altered so there is a break at the front, with a guardsman slant at the back.

With my laced shoes, the trouser break nicely (for my tastes, anyway); when I put on a pair of loafers, you can see some sock.

Some loafers, like apron loafers, are not shaped/cut as low as some others.

 

I'm 6'4", but most of my height is in my torso--jackets shorter than 32" look silly on me.

I wear 34/32 pants.

 

6'6" Usually 34 inseam. Sometimes 36.

 

5'9" or 5'10", 30 inseam.

 

Height has nothing to do with it, inside leg measurement is what matters. I'm 6' and I wear a 30" leg, sometimes a 32" depending on cut and style. Whereas my very leggy Swedish wife who is 5'11" has a 36" inside leg. "72 inches of therapy" as Julia Roberts expressed it in Pretty Woman, while nekkid in the tub with RG!

Height doesn't determine inseam length. But the correlation is probably in the 0.7 range. The OP clearly has long legs relative to his height. In the parlance of our statistical times, he's an outlier.

 

Agreed.

I'm 5'10, and many 30in inseams are too long on me. Especially jeans. I tend to think I'm perhaps a bit of an outlier, only in the other direction.

 

I'm just under 5'7" and have a 30" inseam.

 

my very leggy Swedish wife who is 5'11" has a 36" inside leg

pics or it didn't happen.

Moi- 6 '2", 180-185 lbs, 32" inseam.

 

I'm a shade over 5'8" and generally wear about a 30" inseam. It's obviously the inside leg that is more important than height, but like previously mentioned there is a correlation between the two. I don't view 5'8" and a 30" inseam as particularly out-of-the ordinary.

 

I'm 5'9" and wear a 29.5" inseam and 42" outseam.

 

Is inseam the length?? I'm confused why so many of you are using that word. When i look at jeans/shoes, all i look is the 2 numbers such as 32/30 which is the waist size and length. Or is inseam the same thing as lenght??

 

If you wear 32/30 pants, 30" is the length of the inseam, not the total length of the pants. The inseam is the seam that runs from the hem of the pants up to the crotch, ie. the inner leg measurement.

You and I are roughly the same height and take the same inseam on our pants.

 

Measured today:-

Height 188cm
Weight 88.9kg
Waist 90cm
Inside leg 88cm

 

Height: 72"
Inseam: 30.5" (30", if I wear the trousers a bit low on the waist!)

 

Height doesn't determine inseam length.

Read me again, I never said it did. I said, "Height has nothing to do with it" (i.e. trouser length), inside leg measurement is what matters.

 

Read me again, I never said it did. I said, "Height has nothing to do with it" (i.e. trouser length), inside leg measurement is what matters.

I think he was partially agreeing with you, subject to the qualification in his next sentence. Perhaps had his period been a comma... Or had he started off with "It is true that..." Read him again and see what you think.

 

Height has nothing to do with it, inside leg measurement is what matters. I'm 6' and I wear a 30" leg, sometimes a 32" depending on cut and style. Whereas my very leggy Swedish wife who is 5'11" has a 36" inside leg. "72 inches of therapy" as Julia Roberts expressed it in Pretty Woman, while nekkid in the tub with RG!

Sorry, and with all due respect, but I just lost all interest in discussing clothing! Other images keep running through my mind.

 

5'7" and I always have my pants tailored because 30" (the shortest inseam most brands offer) is too long for my liking.

Every brand will fit differently though, for example I don't wear Ralph Lauren pants or shorts because even if I have them altered so the inseam is shorter, the crotch area (whatever it's called) is always too baggy, like it's made for someone with a 12" shlong going commando, and baggy pants look ridiculous on anyone over the age of 16.

Edit: I think it's good to have all your nice pants tailored anyway so you can get the exact length you want that works with your height and your shoes. The issue about the pants being perfect for laceups and too short for loafers isn't a big deal because loafers are casual anyway, so it doesn't matter if a sliver of sock or ankle is showing.

 

pics or it didn't happen.

Later. She's got one on her facebook of when she was about 16 (about 1980), standing next to a shortish female friend in a kitchen in a summer house both in very short shorts and her comment about herself is, "even then I had legs that ended where most other people have armpits"

Keep dreaming guys!

 

5'11" 185 lbs. 36/32 pants Some 36" waist pants are too tight and I cannot wear them while others have plenty of room in the waist and crotch. Figure it out; I've been trying to.

 

I was 6'3", but I think I've shrunk with age down to about 6'2". Ideally, I like a 32.75-inch inseam. Usually, I have to settle for 32 inches.

 

Whereas my very leggy Swedish wife who is 5'11" has a 36" inside leg. "72 inches of therapy" as Julia Roberts expressed it in Pretty Woman, while nekkid in the tub with RG!

Sir - on another forum I frequent this would earn you a very hearty - "PIC FOUL" but I'll let it pass here.

FWIW - my wife and yours have similar traits it appears.

 

"PIC FOUL"

Not 100% sure what that implies but am I wrong in assuming it's due to me not having included a photo?

 

About 6' and about 32" inseam.

 

Here's a related question for the tailor's: Why do we go by inseam and not out-seam? The inseam can produce varied results since it really doesn't take in to account the pants rise, or construction. Some trouser maker's construct the crotch differently.

The out-seam measurement would be a constant!