Decoding of clothing sizes

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Contents:
  • How correctly to take measurements?
  • Circumference of the breasts
  • Circumference of the breasts
  • Circumference of the breasts
  • Circumference of the breasts
  • Circumference of the hips
  • Side length of the pants
  • Sleeve length
  • Shoulder width
  • Neck circumference
  • Useful advices:

Nowadays the goods market is full of great variety and abundance. At the same time, the problem of choosing the right things remains relevant, as in different countries the decoding of clothing sizes takes place in different ways. But even with such a seemingly uneasy task, regardless of the country of the producer, the indices of removing the measurements from the chest, waist, hips and measurement of growth are unchanged. Therefore, the problem of choosing and matching your forms is easily solved - you only need to know the notation of the sizes of clothes and compare them for yourself. How to do it right, you will learn from this article.

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How to take measurements?

In order to correctly take measurements, you will need to do the following:

  1. Take a centimeter tape.
  2. Tighten it so that it does not sag.
  3. Circle and measure the area of ​​the body that needs to be measured without tugging the skin with the device.

Important! Take measurements, being in thin clothes or underwear, standing straight, dropping your hands down and straightening your shoulders.

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Breast Girth

Hold centimeter tape horizontally and wrap around the body circumference at the most prominent points of the chest, on the back - slightly higher, laterally - under the muscular depressions.

Important! After removing the parameters of your own body, refer to the table of clothing sizes and find your own. So you will find out what size of an imported dress or blouse you need.

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Waist circumference

Measured horizontally around the waist circumference, without tightening the sides.

Important! Take into account, the waist is not at all, where it is used to designate many girls. The true position of the waist is not in the navel area - but above it by a few centimeters. If you correctly measure your own waist, without exaggerating or minimizing your parameters, without pulling too much extra pounds on your stomach, the purchased item will fit you.

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Thigh Circumference

Circle the centimeter belt around the hips at the most prominent points of the buttocks. Be sure to take into account the protrusions of the stomach.

Important! On the parameters of the thighs, close attention should be paid to the owners of lush forms. Those that nature has endowed with more modest dimensions, you can not go into much detail, especially if it's about choosing a free cut dress. Important will remain the designation of clothing sizes for this parameter only when buying pants or skirts such as a pencil.

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Side length of trousers

To remove the lateral length of the trousers, take a centimeter tape and attach it to the outside of the thigh, starting from the bone and stretching to the foot.

Important! Ask someone to help you in this matter, since when you tilt, you can hardly correctly mark the bottom border. Another option is to take a couple of centimeters of margin along the length, since removing them will not be a problem even manually, but you will not be able to add material to too short trousers.

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Sleeve Length

To correctly measure the length of the sleeve, flex the arm slightly at the elbow, then attach a centimeter tape to the center of the neck and extend it through the arm and elbow to the wrist.

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Shoulder width

The width of the shoulders is correctly measured by pulling a centimeter tape from the beginning of one shoulder to the other.

Important! To this procedure, it is also better to draw assistants to obtain correct data.

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Neck Girth

To remove this measurement, take a centimeter and measure the circumference of the neck.

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Tips and Tricks:

When measuring, round off their values ​​in a larger direction, because a slightly loose thing looks much more beautiful than the one that binds you and overstrains your figure.

Remember that the right size makes your figure more elegant.

If you buy clothes in a store, carefully study its label. It can be indicated not only how to properly care for it, but also the international size, height, waist circumference, hips, breasts. The height should coincide with yours in the range +/- 3 cm.

Important! Decoding of international clothing sizes:

  • XS - very small( extra small).
  • S - small( small).
  • M - medium.
  • L - large( large).
  • XL is very large( extra large).
  • XXL - very-very large.( Extra-extra large).

We hope that our article has benefited you and now you know the designations of the sizes of clothes, it means - without great efforts you will pick up a suitable thing for yourself and will not be disappointed by the attractive price of the product.