The Not Playing Games skirt has a particularly short listed length: 37 cm in S and M, 38 cm in L and XL, and 39 cm in XXL. The source gives waist and hip numbers but does not state where the skirt is intended to sit. Place the length on your own body before treating a size label as an answer.

Make a hem mark at two waist heights

On a skirt you own, mark 37 cm down from the top edge while it sits at your natural waist. Repeat with it sitting slightly lower. The hem mark moves with the waist position even though the tape number stays 37 cm. Compare both positions while standing and sitting in your own skirt. Ask the seller whether the listed length starts at the waistband top and whether any lining ends before the outer hem; neither detail appears in the listing.

Use waist and hip together

S lists 62 cm waist and 83 cm hip; M is 66 and 87; L is 70 and 91; XL is 76 and 97; XXL is 80 and 101. Suppose a buyer measures 70 cm waist and 91 cm hip: L is a numerical row match, but not a guarantee of ease. Request the skirt’s finished waistband and hip circumferences, and ask whether the chart values are body guidance. The chart’s longer jump from L to XL makes checking both columns particularly useful.

Confirm what the chart cannot show

The listing names polyester and offers yellow, blue, lavender and white. It does not describe a closure, lining, pleat depth or bow attachment. Ask for front, back and inside photos of the selected color if these details affect how you will wear the short hem.