Measuring To draft patterns for children's pants, you have to take the measurements listed in the table below. To keep the pictures clear and readable the measurements are given only in centimeters. Therefore you have to add ease to some of the measurements. Do not add any ease to other measurements. Crotch height can also be measured from a pair of old, well fitting pants, crotch height is the difference between the outside and the inside seam of the pants.
All measurements are body measurements.
DO NOT ADD ANY EASE when measuring. It is added later in the calculations. It is not an easy task to measure a children or a baby. Therefore I give here the Scandinavian table measurements for the children. You can use these or measure your child yourself.