Plastic strain localisation in a sheet specimen was monitored by electronic speckle pattern interferometry during uniaxial tensile tests. The experiments were carried on in the diffuse and localised necking stages until fracture. A kinematic model, which is independent of material characteristics, was used to describe the whole strain rate field with two crossing localisation bands inclined with respect to the tensile direction. Then, the physical features of localisation, such as the width of the two bands, their inclination angles and their maximum strain rates are identified by least-square from the displacements fields and their evolutions are followed from the onset of diffuse necking up to the failure. In particular, the effect of the average strain rate is considered and bandwidth evolution is analysed in detail.