How to Measure Your Clothing Size - as part of the Women's Style series by GeoBeats.
Sometimes you don't have the luxury of going to the shop, so perhaps you are shopping online or perhaps you are ordering from a catalog, and you need to have some sort of an idea of your measurements. The best way to have your measurements taken is to having it taken professionally. However that may not be realistic for you. So I am going to show you how to take them really quickly.
The best way to take your measurements is to have a friend help you and you want to take your full bust, and that is the widest part of your bust, and make sure that tape is always level as you are having your measurements taken.
The other critical measurement is going to be your natural waist which is either the smallest part of your waist or if you were to tie a string around your waist and kind of move around like this. Where the string naturally settles, is your natural waist. Again keep the measurement, measuring tape level.
And last measurement that is pretty critical is your full hip, and I usually take it in a few different places and take whatever is the largest measurement. Again keeping the tape level and your feet pretty close together. That is how you are going to use measurements.
And then when you are buying a dress or a top or a skirt, I would buy the dress that is the larger of the sizes and if you need to get it altered down for a smaller waist perhaps then you can do that. But always air on the larger size because you don't want something that is little bit too snug in ones spot, or it's just not going to lay right.
