
Horizontal measuring:
1._______BREAST Hold your breast tight to your body as if they were in a corset and measure the girth parallel to the ground.
2._______NIPPLE TO NIPPLE Hold your breast squished to your body or in your favorite bra and measure nipple to nipple.
3._______CUP A In your favorite under wire bra, measure the under wire from point to point.
4._______*UNDERBUST Measure the girth of your under bust parallel to the floor.
5._______CENTER TO BREAST Measure from centerline to the breastline under your breast on the underbust line.
6._______BREAST TO SIDE Measure from the breastline to side seam at the underbust line.
.7._______*WAIST Measure the skinniest part of your waist without sucking in your stomach.
8._______*CINCHED WAIST Hold the tape measure as tight as possible around your waist to help determine your desired cinch or if you know how small you cinch. If you have never cinched before I would suggest 3" smaller than your natural waist.
9._______*HIP Measure the widest part of your hip parallel to the ground.
10._______CENTER TO BREAST Measure from the centerline to the breast line at the hipline.
11._______BREAST TO SIDE Measure from the breast line to the side seam along the hipline.
Vertical Measuring:
12._______*CENTER RISE Measure on the centerline from the waist to the desired rise above the underbust
13._______*WAIST PLUNGE Measure on the centerline from the waistline to the desired plunge at or below the hipline
14._______CUP B Measure from the underbust line around to the nipple
15._______UNDERBUST TO WAIST Measure from the underbust line to the waistline from right under the breast
16._______WAIST TO HIP Measure along the breastline from the waistline to the hipline
17._______WAIST TO HIP Measure along the breastline from the waistline down to the desired plunge while sitting
18._______UNDERARM Measure on the side seam from the waistline to the top of you bra under your pit.
19._______WAIST TO HIP Measure at the sideseam from the waistline to the hipline
20._______WAIST TO HIP PLUNGE Measure at the side seam from the waistline to the desired side extention making sure to get enough hip in there that it won’t create a bulge when cinched.
21._______SIDE BACK Measure back from the side seam 3” then measure from the waistline to the top of you bra.
Measurements marked with * are desired for "semi-custom" or "off-the-rack" corsets. All of them are required for a full-custom corset along with a mock-up. |