How to measure correctly? Councils for the future tailor

To take measurements, you need a centimeter tape. During the measurement you need to stand in a natural posture. Those. If you are usually stooping, do not straighten too much and pull your stomach, otherwise the measurement will be wrong, clothes will sit worse or you will make a mistake in determining your size.

Before taking measurements, you need to choose a well-fitting and comfortable underwear. Previously, it was recommended to wear custom-made clothes with the same underwear that you put on during the measurement. Now in the tailor's skill other standards, and the fabrics have become more elastic, so it's enough that the bra and panties do not add extra inches to your natural volumes. Or did not clean them.

Best of all, if someone will measure you. It is quite difficult to determine, for example, the length of the backrest. Therefore, call an assistant and explain to him how to take measurements where you can not do it.

When you build a pattern, all the required numbers are indicated in the description for it. Therefore, we will not dwell for a long time on what measurements are at all. There are a lot of them. For some things, you may need very specific measurements. Our task is to explain how to take the measurements correctly, and there are general principles in this.

Measurements of circles

The tape should not be pulled, on the contrary, it should lie slightly freely. When you encircle the circumference of a centimeter, place two fingers under it. This is convenient to do in the place where you combine the beginning with the desired mark.

Circumference (girth) of the waist, chest, hips should be checked for horizontal, especially if you have a large size. For this, the area of the measurement is first encircled with a cord, and the measuring tape is lowered from the lace line to the floor on the side, from the back, from the front. If the numbers coincide, the girdle was correct, you can further take measurements.

Often the question arises as to where exactly one needs to apply a centimeter. Circumference of the neck is always determined by the level of the seventh, most protruding, vertebra. Other girths pass either through the widest or the narrowest place on the body (unless your figure is too disproportionate due to excess weight).

Since it is usually possible to take off the size of clothes only by the circumference of the chest, waist, hips, it's easy to do on your own. Then look in the special tables. Female sizes in the system adopted on the territory of our country are calculated as half the circumference of the chest, i.е. For the 46th size of the exhaust gas = 90-92 cm, for 48 - 94-96, etc.

Vertical measurements

Here you often need to seek help. But if there was no one nearby, use a full-length mirror. The length of the back is also measured from the 7 cervical vertebra. To correctly measure the length of the sleeve, you need to slightly bend the arm. All measurements for trousers are removed from the side.

The correct sequence

The results may vary depending on how to take measurements. Therefore order is very important. Begin with the definition of the waist line. Then measure the length of the back, shoulder and width of the back. Then they pass to the hand, measuring the length of the sleeve and the arms of the shoulder, forearm, wrist. Finish with measurements on the front, refining the girth of the waist and figuring out the girths of the hips, chest, neck.