Costume measurement form – Women

Please give your measurements in EITHER inches OR cms – do not mix.  Ask someone to assist you rather than attempt to measure yourself. Use a dressmaker’s sewing tape measure – do not attempt to use a builder’s metal tape measure or a ruler. ✌️When measuring, always keep two fingers between the tape and the body. If a measurement is not an exact number, round up, not down to the nearest half cm or quarter inch.

🙏 Please be extremely accurate. Over-optimism causes grief in Wardrobe! 

Costume measurements - Women

Please give your measurements in EITHER inches OR cms – do not mix.

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(please stick to ONE unit throughout the form)
Remove your shoes and stand with your back against a wall. Ask someone to mark the top of your head on the wall and meaure from the mark to the floor.
Start in the middle of your forehead at the level where you would naturally wear a hat. Take the tape 360° around your head until it meets.
Start at the side of the body, level with the fullest point of the bust line, then measure 360° around the body until it meets the starting point. At the front of the body, the tape should sit across the centre bust points.
Hold the tape measure at the side of the body, level with the bottom of your bra, and run it under the cups right around the body until you get back to the start point.
Start the tape at the side waist and measure 360° around the widest part of the belly.
Start the tape at the side of the body where you can feel your hip bone and run 360° around the body at this level, until the tape meets.
Start the tape at the side of the body in line with the widest point of your bottom. Take the tape 360° around your bottom until the tape meets.
Start the tape in the middle of the back, at the waistline. Drop the tape to the floor, then measure to where the inside leg joins the body. Don't curve the tape around the bottom.
Start the tape at the top of the spine where you can find a more pronounced bone, just before it becomes the neck, and run the tape measure straight down the spine to the waist level.
Start from the same pronounced bone, as above. Bring the tape measure down to the centre bust point.
Start from the same pronounced bone, as above. Run the tape measure over the neck, down across the breast at the widest part of the chest, then drop the tape straight down (vertically) from the chest point to the waist level. Do not draw the tape across to the centre of the waist. See the diagram for an illustration.
Wear a shirt of the correct size. Start from the same pronounced bone, as above, and measure out along the shoulder to the point where it meats the seam of the shirt.
When taking this measurement, lift your arm upwards and bend your elbow. This gives a more accurate result. Start the tape at the nape, as before. Run the tape along the shoulder and down the outside of the arm, finishing at the pointiest part of the elbow, before it curves back in to form the forearm.
As above, but continue tape past the elbow, to the point where the hand joins the arm, just below the wrist bone.
Start the tape on the left, at the point where the shirt-seam is, at a level halfway between the shoulder and the underarm, and then take the tape across to the equivalent point on the right.
Remove footwear. Run the tape from your waist at the side of your body, down the outside of your leg, to the floor.
Remove footwear. Start from the same pronounced bone as above and drop the tape to the floor.
Starting at the front centre of the neck, pass the tape around until it meets at the front.
Take the measurement 360° around the widest point of the upper arm, halfway between your elbow and your armpit. Tense your muscles for this measurement.
Measure around the widest part of the forearm, just below the elbow. No need to tense your muscles for this, but don't forget the two-finger rule.
Start where your right arm meets your body, 2cm forward from the centre of your underarm. Take the tape across the chest, above the breast, and finish at the same point on your left arm.
Take the measurement 360° around the wrist bone.
Measure from the pronounced bone at the top of your spine, vertically down to the point level with your underarms.
Measure from the pronounced bone at the top of the spine to the point where your neck and shoulder meet.
Start on the side of the waistline. Measure over the curve of your hip down to the widest part of your bottom.
Measure 360° around the ankle.
This should be the normal size you wear every day.
This should be the normal size you wear every day.
Many people find they are between sizes. This is common where your waist is small for your hip size. If you are size 14 hip but size 12 waist, please put 14 here. We can adjust the waist when you are on site. It is easier to reduce the size of a costume than to increase it.
Indicate the trouser length you usually buy.
If possible, please give an English shoe size. If not, European sizes are preferable to American as shoes will be purchased in the UK.
If you have any physical traits that might affect the hang/wear of the costume, please tell us here. Eg. Very round shoulders, curved back, broken arm etc.
Required: A reasonably recent head shot photograph of yourself please
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Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, heic, Max. file size: 10 MB, Max. files: 1.
    Required: Three full-length photos: Front, side and back. Against a plain background, preferably in something that is reasonably close-fitting.
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    Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, heic, Max. file size: 10 MB, Max. files: 3.