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Measurements of different sizes
"Sally Holmes" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Hi Everyone I wonder if anyone here can help? My friend really enjoys making clothes for friends and family and is considering making some articles for sale. What she would like to do is make clothes "off the rack" without having to measure the person beforehand. What I would like is to buy her a book with all the measurements for the standard sizes (i.e. a size 12 dress is x cm around the waist y cm long, etc). Does anyone know of a good source for such information? Commercial clothing patterns have tables showing the measurements for each size. Burda used to be particularly good as they had a booklet that listed things like shoulder length and nape-to-waist as well as the standard bust, waist, hip. I haven't seen one over here recently so I don't know if they've stopped producing them or if they're just not available in the UK. Also, every patternmaking book (a good one is Winifred Aldrich's Metric Pattern Making, ISBN 0632036125, available from www.amazon.co.uk) I've seen has a table of standard sizes. The books are much more detailed than patterns. However, your friend needs to be aware that many RTW designers use "vanity sizing". This means that a garment labelled size 8 is really a 12. Someone who's size 12, it is reasoned, will buy the size 8 because - hey! if this fits me, I'm a size 8, right? So your friend really needs to take account of this or possibly lose customers who won't buy a size 12, even though it fits, because they want the label to say 8. HTH -- Sally Holmes Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England I use vanity measuring for my customers. ; ) Very few seem to comprehend centimetres, even the young ones I see for bridesmaids and prom dresses, so thats what I measure them in!. Myself I measure in inches if I really have to : ( buy metres length of 45 or 60" width, use fahrenheit for when its warm and centigrade for when its cold and can only cope with cooking on gas 'coz oven temperatures leave me bamboozled. Liz. |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 16:19:21 +0000 (UTC), Liz Cork
wrote: "Sally Holmes" wrote in message ... Will wrote: Hi Everyone I wonder if anyone here can help? My friend really enjoys making clothes for friends and family and is considering making some articles for sale. What she would like to do is make clothes "off the rack" without having to measure the person beforehand. What I would like is to buy her a book with all the measurements for the standard sizes (i.e. a size 12 dress is x cm around the waist y cm long, etc). Does anyone know of a good source for such information? Commercial clothing patterns have tables showing the measurements for each size. Burda used to be particularly good as they had a booklet that listed things like shoulder length and nape-to-waist as well as the standard bust, waist, hip. I haven't seen one over here recently so I don't know if they've stopped producing them or if they're just not available in the UK. Also, every patternmaking book (a good one is Winifred Aldrich's Metric Pattern Making, ISBN 0632036125, available from www.amazon.co.uk) I've seen has a table of standard sizes. The books are much more detailed than patterns. However, your friend needs to be aware that many RTW designers use "vanity sizing". This means that a garment labelled size 8 is really a 12. Someone who's size 12, it is reasoned, will buy the size 8 because - hey! if this fits me, I'm a size 8, right? So your friend really needs to take account of this or possibly lose customers who won't buy a size 12, even though it fits, because they want the label to say 8. HTH -- Sally Holmes Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England I use vanity measuring for my customers. ; ) Very few seem to comprehend centimetres, even the young ones I see for bridesmaids and prom dresses, so thats what I measure them in!. Myself I measure in inches if I really have to : ( buy metres length of 45 or 60" width, use fahrenheit for when its warm and centigrade for when its cold and can only cope with cooking on gas 'coz oven temperatures leave me bamboozled. Liz. Thanks so much for your advice everyone! This is a very friendly group I'm chasing up all of your links-very much appreciated. I have decided to put together a bundle of as much information as possible so that she has everything she might need (it's her birthday coming up). If anyone else has any book recommendations or sources of info they find helpful I'd be very interested. Thanks again Will -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ |
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Tom and Nancy Teigen wrote:
I use the measurement charts from ready-to-wear catalogs as a guideline to RTW sizes/measurements - for example the JC Penney catalog is pretty standard for middle-of-the road price clothes. High end clothes do tend to be less uniform (see replies regarding vanity sizing), JCPenney has had vanity sizing for at least 5 years -- it's a one-size differential. I think Sears (pre-Land's End) had more standard sizing than JCPenney. -- I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa |
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