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The Best Guide to Fit!

• To select your pattern size, use your body measurements, not ready-to-wear size.
• Finished garment measurements are printed on the pattern tissue and on the back of many pattern envelopes. Compare these against the body measurement chart for your size. The difference is the amount of ease allowed.

How to Measure:

Measure over the undergarments you normally wear. Hold the tape measure comfortably snug, but not tight.

1. Height: Standing against a flat wall without shoes, from floor to top of your head.
2. Bust: Around the fullest part of the bust and straight across the back.
3. High Bust: directly under the arms, straight across the back and above the bust.
4. Waist: Tie a narrow elastic around waist and let it settle naturally at your waistline. Measure over the elastic. Keep the elastic in place for the next measurement.
5. Back Waist Length: from the most prominent bone at the base of neck to the natural waistline.
6. Hip: around body at fullest part, usually 7"- 9" (18-23cm) below waist.