# Mattress sizes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 19, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881 "2000-06-19T18:52:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/1 "2000-06-19T18:52:35Z")
I need some help, please. I need to buy linens for a mattress that’s 48 inches wide. I know it’s bigger than twin…is that full? Queen? King? All the linen sets come in those sizes, and none say anything about inches. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![starfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@starfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starfish)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/2 "2000-06-19T19:18:05Z")
Double, queen and king size have room for two people so they are wider than the size you have. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/3 "2000-06-19T19:55:15Z")
You have what is known as a 3/4 size. (Check out mattress sizes [here](http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mattmatt/sizes.html).) Good luck trying to find linens for _that_ size. Not many places stock 3/4 size sheets. (Although [this place](http://www.hacksack-leisure.com/sheets.html) does.) Out of curiosity, where did you get this bed? I didn’t think 3/4 size beds had been made for the last hundred years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/4 "2000-06-19T21:30:37Z")
Buy full size flat sheets and learn to tuck the bottom on so it won’t come undone - remember at one time all sheets were flat. If you must: Buy the full size fitted and take a near 3" tuck (via sewing machine) on one side (close to the edge of the top of the mattress so someone won’t be sleeping on the seam). and if you insist, cut the correct amount off one side of a full-sized sheet and hem it for a top sheet. I know I’ve done this before for some irregular sized bed or couch, it seems like we put the too-large fitted sheet on the mattress (wrong side up) and pinned in the pleat, ironed the crease, chalk marked the location of the pins, drew a chalk line with a yard stick and then fed it to the sewing machine. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/5 "2000-06-19T21:45:11Z")
I have a 3/4 bed. It is a good size if the room is small and you sleep alone most of the time and only ocassionally in company. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/6 "2000-06-20T20:56:41Z")
Thanks for the advice, guys! Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mattress-sizes/22881/7 "2000-06-21T06:52:57Z")
It’s called a 4/0…All mattress sizes are in feet and inches. a 3/3…twin…4/0…4/6…full…5/0/…queen…6/6…king…With many odd sizes. 20 years of Sealy mattress experience.