Reference
Petite Brand Directory
Which brands draft a true petite block, which shorten a standard one, and what the shortest published inseam actually is: recorded field by field, with the basis for every value stated.
21 entries0 publish inseam data28% average completeness
The index
Every entry
The full record, sorted as compiled. To narrow it by category, inseam, price or petite approach, use the Brand Finder.
- Brand
J.Crew
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Redrafted petite block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Petite Studio
Low data confidence4 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Redrafted petite block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
J.Jill
Low data confidence2 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
White House Black Market
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 145 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
NYDJ
Low data confidence6 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 99 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- Denim
- Brand
Chico's
Low data confidence4 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Talbots
Low data confidence1 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Boden
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 160 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Madewell
Low data confidence5 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 148 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- Denim
- Brand
Old Navy
Low data confidence4 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Banana Republic
Low data confidence3 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 180 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Marks & Spencer
Low data confidence8 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Shortened standard block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 34 when sampled$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Hobbs London
Low data confidence2 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Phase Eight
Low data confidence5 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- Occasionwear
- Brand
Whistles
Low data confidence10 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Redrafted petite block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 99 when sampled$$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Karen Millen
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Shortened standard block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Wallis
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Shortened standard block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
River Island
Low data confidence8 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 49 when sampled$
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
Sosandar
Low data confidence7 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Redrafted petite block
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
- Brand
The Fold London
Low data confidence5 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Median full-price item 325 when sampled$$$
- Strongest in
- Workwear
- Brand
Reformation
Low data confidence1 of 19 fields
- Petite approach
- Not established
- Inseam range
- Not published
- Price
- Not establishedNot established
- Strongest in
- No category recorded as a strength
Sourcing
Methodology
A directory that reports measurements has to say where the measurements came from, and where they do not exist.
- Every value carries its basis
- No figure is stored as a bare number. Each one records whether the brand published it on its own site, or whether we inferred it from published data and on what reasoning, and unknown values stay structurally unknown rather than defaulting to a negative answer. Every published figure names the page it came from and the date that page was read.
- What gets recorded
- Petite approach, size range, shortest and longest published inseam, measurement practice, category strengths, shipping regions, return terms, and an inferred alteration likelihood. Nineteen fields per record, which is what the completeness figure counts.
- What does not get claimed
- Nothing here asserts that a garment was worn, tested or reviewed. Where a figure is not published, the entry says so and explains why. It is never estimated, inferred from a size label, or copied from a comparable brand.
- What counts as a source
- Only the brand’s own current pages: its size guide, its garment measurement tables, its returns and shipping terms. Search snippets, blogs, forums, social posts, marketplaces and aggregators are rejected outright by validation, not merely discouraged: they are second-hand, and none of them is the brand committing to a figure.
- Every record is dated
- A record carries the date a human last read its cited pages. Size ranges and inseams change between seasons, so a figure over a year old is shown with a warning, and one over two years old is not allowed to render as current at all.
- Outbound links are references, not placements
- A link to a brand exists so you can check a figure at its source. There are no affiliate relationships behind them, no commission, and no tracking: tracking and affiliate parameters are stripped before a link is rendered and rejected when a record is written. Every outbound link names its destination and says that it opens elsewhere.
- How inclusion works
- No brand pays for inclusion and no entry is a paid placement. Inclusion is decided by whether a brand publishes enough to be recorded honestly, which is a different question from whether it is any good.
- Why the entries are archetypes today
- Real records are held to all of the above, and the sourcing attempt behind this phase did not produce 20 of them: most brand pages could not be retrieved at all, and of those that could, none published a brand-level inseam that could be cited without generalising from a single product. Rather than lower the standard to fill a page, the directory renders labelled archetypes and says so. The rules above are enforced in code and tested; what is missing is the research.