21-10-2016, 05:23 PM
I've always told people upgrading from 4:3 (or even 16:9 CRT), measure height of actual picture and take tape measure to showroom. (Most non-technical people can't do the sums). Then get bigger, never the same size.
Use the same tape measure, as unbelievably some are wrong!
I think in the latter years of CRT they were supposed to quote visible picture diagonal and not CRT size.
Oddly clothes sizes are now useless. You need to measure your neck, shoulders, chest (or if female bust and chest underbust), waist, hips, arm (on inseam), leg (on inseam) and possibly thigh. Shoes / boots / slippers need to be tried on both feet (one foot is usually larger and both halves of the pair may not be exactly the same). Many clothes places don't have changing facilities. This is all apart from US sizes much smaller for clothes or shoes than UK numbers. Asian S M L is often XXS, SX and S!
Recipes on Internet may not specify source country. USA has a baking cup, a coffee cup and some other cup, none of which match the UK baking cup measure. The Japanese have a different cup measure.
Different styles of jeans in same shop have proved to be completely different.
Really everything needs measured. Even tape measures (my wife managed to buy a tape measure that had some sort of imaginary inches or cm, I forget which). I found blinds were not the stated width.
Use the same tape measure, as unbelievably some are wrong!
I think in the latter years of CRT they were supposed to quote visible picture diagonal and not CRT size.
Oddly clothes sizes are now useless. You need to measure your neck, shoulders, chest (or if female bust and chest underbust), waist, hips, arm (on inseam), leg (on inseam) and possibly thigh. Shoes / boots / slippers need to be tried on both feet (one foot is usually larger and both halves of the pair may not be exactly the same). Many clothes places don't have changing facilities. This is all apart from US sizes much smaller for clothes or shoes than UK numbers. Asian S M L is often XXS, SX and S!
Recipes on Internet may not specify source country. USA has a baking cup, a coffee cup and some other cup, none of which match the UK baking cup measure. The Japanese have a different cup measure.
Different styles of jeans in same shop have proved to be completely different.
Really everything needs measured. Even tape measures (my wife managed to buy a tape measure that had some sort of imaginary inches or cm, I forget which). I found blinds were not the stated width.
