Does anyone else find Mr Porter's measurements pages a bit off?

[Fiddler]

Im a huge fan of their operation but I find a lot of their measurements to be not as accurate as they purport to be. I know its not the easiest thing to measure clothes but for high ticket items its a must.
Or else you end up paying customers duties twice...once with your original delivery and the second time when they ship you the right size.

Ive been having this back and forth with one of their reps because of a pair of trousers.
the size 50 waist is measured as 34inches and the 52 is 34.5 inches. I keep telling her
that it doesn't make sense to create a new size for just half inch bigger in waist but she insists
this is right.

Has anyone else faced measurement issues like this with mr P?

 

[GBR]

Half inch increments are what is often stated people most want and need and I certainly wouldn't decry it. The woman is absolutely right.

 

[Fiddler]

Hmmmm...not sure I can agree entirely.

The item in question said..."fits true to size take your normal size".

A 52 would be 36 according in all sizing charts Ive read. Yet they
measure is as 34.5 inches and say that its fits true to size...that's not accurate is it?

I recently bought a t-shirt from them in size S....the measurement on the chest circumference
read 38.5 inches....normally I would never have bought it...but I had tried the identical tshirt
in a high street store and knew that it would fit me perfectly....my chest measurement is 40-41 inches.

When the t-shirt got to me, the first thing I did was measure the chest circumference and it was
41 inches...they were off by a full 2.5 inches.