Custom-Made Dresses: Waist-to-Floor Measurement

Video Transcript

"Are we're going over how to take measurements for to have a custom made dress, a custom dress made. The measure we're going over now is from the waist to the floor. You want to take the measurement, start the measurement from the where you stopped the shoulder-to- waist measurements, keeping the same marking that you had before, you will start from, from the natural waist line and just let the measuring tape drop and drape naturally. You do not want to pull it taut. When you pull it taut, it will actually make it a little bit shorter than it needs to be. Having it just drape naturally will also help give you a little bit of extra length so that when the skirt is cut, you can actually hem the dress up. It's a lot easier for a seamstress to take fabric off a hem than it is to add fabric. But you want to make sure that wherever you start at the waist, stopped the waist measurement from, you're going to start waist-to-floor measurement. If you start, went from shoulder-to-bellybutton, you want to make sure you go bellybutton-to-floor. Sometimes if you're having a tea length dress made or shorter dress, you want to go to about the bottom of the knee. The seamstress can go ahead and add extra fabric to make it tea length for the proper length after that."