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- Height: Taken standing with your back against a wall, wearing period shoes. Place ruler on top of head and mark where ruler touches the wall. Measure from the floor to the mark.
- Bust: Measure across widest part of back, under arms, and across full bustline.
- Waist: Mark your waist by tying a string snugly around your middle. It will roll to your natural waist. Take the measurement of the string marker.
- Hips: Keeping tape measure parallet to the floor, measure around the fullest part of your hips. This isz typically 7 to 9 inches below your waist.
- Neckband: Measure around the base of your neck below your Adam's apple.
- Apex: Measure from the base of your neck to the point of your bust.
- Shoulder Length: Measure from the base of your neck to the top of your arm.
- Sleeve Length: With your hand on your hip, measure from your shoulder joint to your wrist bone.
- Trousers Outseam: Measure along the side seam from your waist to the floor on the outer leg.
- Trousers Inseam: Measure along the inner seam from the crotch to the hem.
- Under Bust: Rib cage measurement, just below your bustline.
- Shoulder Breadth: Widest part of your shoulders between sleeve seams.
- Biceps: Total measurement around your upper arm (not flexed) at widest part.
- Finished Front Length over Crinoline: From your waist to the floor over crinoline.
- Front Length: From the base of your neck, just under Adam's apple, to your waist.
- Back Waist Length: From the prominent bone at the base of your neck to your waist.
- Wrist: Circumference at the prominent bone.
- Hoop Circumference: Largest/bottom row of steel. Note: Hem measurement should be a minimum of 20 inches more than this measurement.
- Crotch Length: From your waist in the back, through your legs and up to your waist in the front.