C&A kids size chart

1. Measure your child's height without shoes, standing against a wall.
2. Find that height in the Height column, or enter it in the size finder on this page. The size on that row is the one the brand's chart gives for that height.
3. If the height is at the edge of a range, or between two sizes, look at the other measurements the chart lists, such as chest, waist and hip, and compare them with your child's. In the Outgrow app you can enter your child's measurements and get a full size check.
4. Age labels are only a guide. The height range is what the chart is built on.

C&A boys size chart: tops

C&A girls size chart: tops

C&A boys size chart: bottoms

C&A girls size chart: bottoms

C&A's height labels against the typical brand's

In C&A's table of height labels, the typical range for a label is the median lowest height and the median highest height of that label across the charts compared, and the difference is the middle of C&A's range minus the median of the middles of those charts' ranges. Charts compared is the number of brands' charts in our data that publish the same label and count towards these figures. About the same means a difference of 1 cm or less, slightly lower or slightly higher means more than 1 cm and less than 2 cm, and lower or higher means 2 cm or more.

C&A's chest, waist and hip against the average at the same height

C&A's figures are the average difference, over simulated children, between C&A's chart and the average of the charts in our data that give the same measurement at the same height. About the same means less than 0.5 standard deviations of all brands' differences away from their average, slightly wider or slightly narrower means 0.5 to less than 1 standard deviation, which is within the usual spread, and a clear difference means 1 standard deviation or more, the level the study uses. Brands compared is the number of brands whose figures for that measurement enter the comparison. The figures compare chart measurements and say nothing about how clothes fit.

These comparisons set this brand's size labels beside the same labels at other brands in our comparison.

Across 12 sizes that C&A shares with other brands, each size covers the same heights as the typical brand's at the same label. For example, a typical size 116 covers 110-116 cm and C&A's size 116 covers 110-116 cm.

These figures compare a brand's published chest, waist or hip figure with the average of other brands' charts at the same height. They describe charts, not how clothes fit.

At the same height, the chest measurement on C&A's girls' tops chart is 1.9 cm wider than the average of 52 brands in our data.

The step is the height difference between one size and the next.

C&A's sizes follow the common 6 cm steps (size 116 covers 110-116 cm), so a size covers about the same heights as at many other brands.

A chart starts and ends at certain heights. A child outside that range is outside the chart.

C&A publishes sizes from 42 cm to 182 cm, 140 cm in all.

Some labels contain a number, such as 116. Brands use it in different ways, for example as the top of the height range or as its middle.

In C&A's labels the number is the top of the range: size 116 covers 110-116 cm. A child who is exactly 116 cm is at the top of that size.

Height is the main measurement on most charts. Some brands also publish chest, waist, hip or inseam, which allow a child's own measurements to be compared with the chart.

C&A publishes chest, waist, hip and inseam, so you can compare more than height.

Shoe sizes as published by C&A. They are not part of our comparison of 72 brands' size charts, and the brand can change them, so check the brand's own chart before buying.