Sizes

Sizes
In the following tables of equivalent sizes, French sizes have been rounded up, where necessary. (It is always better to have clothes a little too big than a little too tight.)
Note that for shoe and sock sizes French uses pointure, so a size 37 is une pointure 37. For all other types of garment (even stockings and tights) the word taille is used, so a size 16 shirt is une chemise taille 40, etc.
what size are you?
= quelle taille faites-vous? or quelle pointure faites-vous?
I take size 40 (in clothes)
= je prends du 40 or je fais du 40
I take a size 7 (in shoes)
= je chausse du 40 or je fais du 40
my collar size is 15
= je porte un 38 or je porte du 38
I’m looking for collar size 16
= je cherche un 40
his shoe size is 39
= il chausse du 39
a pair of shoes size 39
= une paire de chaussures pointure 39
have you got the same thing in a 16?
= avez-vous ce modèle en 40?
have you got this in a smaller size?
= avez-vous ce modèle dans une plus petite taille (or pointure)? or avez-vous ce modèle en plus petit?
have you got this in a larger size?
= avez-vous ce modèle dans une plus grande taille (or pointure)? or avez-vous ce modèle en plus grand?
they haven’t got my size
= ils n’ont pas ma taille (or ma pointure)

Big English-French dictionary. 2003.

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