Here
at Chain Me Up, our sterling silver and gold bracelets
are made to any length you desire. As chains are made of links, they cannot
normally be made to an exact length like a piece of string could be. Normally
they will however, be within about 5mm of the length you select.
With
consideration to the length of your bracelet, we generally recommend adding
about 2 or 3 centimetres to your wrist measurement. How much extra will
determine how far onto your hand the bracelet will fall. Smaller builds may
prefer just 1.5 or 2 centimetres, larger builds may prefer adding 3
centimetres. If you are unsure, go longer; it is much easier for a jeweller to
remove an extra link or two, than it is to find an extra matching link.
Hello,
I'm Sebastian Mitchell from boy beads and today
I want to talk about bracelet sizing. Typically we recommend that you add half
an inch to your wrist size for the appropriate bracelet size. So that means
that if your wrist is 7 inches, your bracelet size would be 7 and a half
inches, if your wrist is 8 inches, your bracelet size would be 8 and a half
inches and typically the average male size is 7 and a half inches. So that's
our most popular bracelet size that we sell.
Today
I want to actually show you my wrist and my sizing and I'll show you how
different size bracelets will fit on my wrist, so that will help you to know
what size you need to purchase. What I have is a standard tape measure and I'm
going to put it around my wrist in the area that I would typically wear a
bracelet, which would be at the very front of my wrist. So I wrap it around and
I stop the tape at the point where the two ends meet, so I'm going to try to
put this closer so you can see that my wrist is just a little bit shy of 7
inches. So what we want to do is to size up to seven and a half inches for a
bracelet. If I made it to 7 inches exactly it would be a little bit too tight
and I like to show you how a bracelet looks on your wrist if it's too tight.
I'll
start with this Picasso Jasper bracelet, this bracelet is exactly 7 inches, so
what that means is that this would fit someone with the wrist that’s six and a
half inches. But I'm going to try it out anyway so you see what I mean by the
sizing. Can you see that there’s strain right here? You can see the string, if
you're wearing a bracelet and the string is visible on your wrist or on your
arm, that means that it's too small. I can move my arm up and down I can shake
my arm the bracelet does not move. This is too tight for my wrist, what I need
to do is size up to a seven and a half inch and that would be my size.
If
it's too tight it's more prone to popping, if it's too large then the bracelet
is more prone to snagging on or catching on to things around it and it could
also pop and break. This is an example of a bracelet that's eight inches, eight
inches is too large for my wrist so, it will fall, it will fall down, it will
go all the way down even farther if I didn't have on this watch. So eight
inches is too large for me and you can see the extra space here. This could
catch on to something as I'm going about my daily routine and it could snag and
pop which we don't want. Now I'm going to try on sizes that are seven and a
half, so these are exactly my size.
This
one goes over the hand it moves a little bit on my wrist, but not a whole lot,
it just goes only about two inches. This is my size, seven and a half inches,
this one also fits perfectly. If you don't have a measuring tape at home you
could use anything that's flexible. I have right here a receipt, so you can
take a piece of receipt paper, fold it in half, you'll also need a standard
ruler. This is a standard 12 inch ruler, so take the tape the paper I’m sorry,
and use it just as you would a tape measure. You stop it where the ends meet
and I’m having a little bit of trouble with this, but okay, so I stop it here
where the ends meet. I will mark this point with my finger, so this mark, this
is where it stopped and then I will get my ruler and I will measure the point
where I stopped and it's still the exact same point. Just a little bit before
seven, so that lets you know that your wrist size is right above seven and
right below seven and that your bracelet size would be seven and a half. I hope
that this tutorial can help someone, if you do have any questions please click
the link below to send me an email. Thank you everyone, happy to help.
