I’m not having a go at pant lengths being too long. I get my wife to hem them but if you don’t have that ability then here you have to pay to get them hemmed. It might be different if say I bought a suit as generally they will do it as part of the fitting.
But if I buy a pair of $20 jeans at The Warehouse it’ll cost me about $20 to get them hemmed otherwise because The Warehouse doesn’t have a fitting service. It’s not worth it.
I never thought about the stretching thing. Both tapes I have/had are fibreglass so not supposed to stretch but they will break, hence my problem.
It is interesting to me though that the tape I just bought is more inline with reality though. I’m now measuring at 87cm which is what my pants are. The one that broke was telling me I was 77cm which is better for my ego I guess but not inline with reality.
I just thought it was interesting that there could be such a discrepancy with something that should be a standard measurement.