Help with curtain sizes

[DustyLee123]

I’m struggling to replace some curtains, I think the ones up now are from Dunelm.
I measured the curtain pole that is up, and it was 268cm wide, the curtains up now are 184cm drop and I want that drop again. But that width doesnt give me much choice. Each individual curtain is about 185cm wide, so what width should I be looking at? Thanks

Most curtains have both measurements the other measurement would be 90 wide 72 drop

Normally the full width of the window that you are covering should be half the full width of both curtains. So a 1m wide window would need two 1m wide curtains to cover it with the right scrunchiness for the curtains.

Ready mades usually come in 228 or 284 cm widths, both fine on a 268 cm wide pole. You will just have a slight more relaxed gather or a fuller gather.

Normal gather is twice the pole, but you can get away with 1.5.

So if you had a 200cm wide pole, you would need a pair of curtains that were each 200cm wide, but you could get away with 150cm wide with less gather, or anything in between or slightly more.