Dress-Making Part 1: Taking Measurements

It is such a big privilege to meet a friend here who knows how to sew. To take advantage, I and some other friends asked her to teach us to sew and also to organize a community activity.

Our first project is to make hair caps for hospital patients. In the Kingdom, part of their culture is to have the women cover their hair. Being sick and helpless in the hospital of course doesn't make it easy. So we made some shower-cap-like- head cover.

I will be posting about that later. But for this post I would like to focus on taking body measurements.

So here are the following measurements we have to take:

Shoulder -
Back figure-- from the base of the neck to the waist line
Skirt length- from the waist line to the desired length of skirt
Bust- 1st- chest area
          2nd- circumference aligned on the breast point
          3rd- the empire area

Waist
1st hips- usually 4" from the waist
2nd hips - 4" from the first hips
Shoulder to bust point - to be measured from base of the neck to the bust point
Bust distance- from bust point to bust point
Sleeve length- from the shoulder to desired length of sleeves
Around arm- desired circumference (looseness) on the end of sleeve
Arm hole-
Neck- from the base of the neck to the desired depth of the neckline.

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