MEASURING YOURSELF FOR A WEDDING DRESS
Relax and don't pull the tape too tight. You want to measure your normal,
comfortable posture. To begin, please tie a string or ribbon around your
waist so that we can use this line to measure up and down. If you wear
a bra, then it's helpful to take the measurements whilst wearing one.
1. How Tall Are You?
2. Measure down from the nape of the neck to the waist.
3. Measure down from waist to knee.
4. Measure down from waist to floor.
5. How high is the heel on your wedding shoes.
BUST
6. Measure your upper chest, this is above your nipple line, straight across from arm to arm, try and get a measurement from the front, and again for the back.
7. Chest/Bust: wrap the tape around you at the fullest point, usually at the nipples, to measure your chest/bust, try and get a measurement from the front, and again for the back.
8. Measure from nipple to nipple across the body
9. Measure from the fullest point down to your waistline, in a straight
line.
10. What bra size do you usually wear?
11. Measure your underbust. On women, this is taken at the place where
your bra band rests, or at the base of the pectoral muscle for men.
12. Measure the distance down between this point and your waistline.
WAIST
13. What is your waist measurement? If you can, let me know the front waist as well as the total (drawing a line on your side will help)
14. To get the curve of your hips correct for the pattern take measurements
around your body 3" and 5" down from waist (Again, total and front will be a real help)
15. Measurement your hips at their fullest and how far from your waist
this is, try and get a measurement from the front, and again for the back.
General
!6. How far from the waist do you want the splitof the skirt to start?
17. Any special instructions?
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