How to measure the hips correctly

Everyone has their own specific body parameters. According to them and determined by the fact, exactly what size of clothes he will wear. In this article I want to talk in more detail about how to measure the hips correctly and that this should be taken into account.

What is it for?

There may be a question about why you need to know the girth of your hips to a woman. There can be several options. The first one and the most common one is if you need to sew something (for example, a skirt, trousers or a dress). In this case it is necessary to know several parameters, one of which is the volume of the hips. Also, it may be necessary for girls who want to match the ideal world parameters that have long been relevant for models - 90-60-90, where the last 90 are the hips. It is worth saying that there may still be a lot of options.

How to measure

You need to know not only how to properly measure the volume of the hips, but also what it is better to do. So, the simplest and most common method is an ordinary centimeter tape, which is quite easy to acquire. There is one nuance: very often when ordering clothes in foreign stores require measurements made in inches, and not in the usual units for us. So centimeter tape is better to take such that on one side there was one counting system (centimeter), on the other - inch (for reference: 1 cm - 0.394 inches). If you do not have centimeter tape at hand, you can also use any inelastic belt or tape (important: they should not stretch, because then the result of the measurement will turn out to be wrong). To do this, on the one hand, after measuring it, you just need to tie it to a knot, mark it with a shallow or a handle (to fix the required length). And after that, simply measure the waist with a conventional ruler.

Measurements

So, how to measure your hips? If this is done at home, on your own, you need to take off your shoes, undress to the underwear and become as comfortable as possible. The best option: to measure someone else, so they will be more accurate. However, if there is no such person, you can simply stand in front of a mirror for convenience to control the position of the tape. It is important that it is always parallel to the floor, so the measurements will be correct. It approximately will be located at a distance of 16-22 centimeters from the waist (all depends on the growth of the girl). How to measure the femurs in women so that the measurements are correct? To do this, you need to find the most prominent points on the buttocks and on them to lay a centimeter tape. This will be the necessary figure, which the lady was looking for. An important point is how to measure the thighs: the legs should be placed next to each other, rather than the width of the shoulders (if this is not taken into account, the volume of the hips will be wider and the measurement will be incorrect).

Nuances

However, not everything is so simple, because not all women have perfect figures. So, there are situations that the lady's points on the sides of the legs, the so-called "ears", are larger than the protruding points on the buttocks. We must remember that you need to measure the most prominent parts, regardless of where they are located. Also, it is not uncommon for women to have a prominent tummy. How to measure the hip circumference in this situation? The bulge of the abdomen when measuring the hips should also be taken into account; On a centimeter tape you just need to add those few cm to which the belly protrudes. To correctly recognize this figure, you must exactly become and relax, the stomach does not pull. To the most convex part of it, you can attach a ruler that will go down, and then simply bring the measuring tape to the ruler. This will be the desired measure. If the measurements are taken by a pregnant woman, however, it will not be a thing to wear not only during an interesting situation, the bulge of the belly should not be taken into account.

About the numbers

Having figured out how to measure the hips, it is also worthwhile to look a little at the notation. Often women can meet the abbreviations OB or UB. What does this mean? OB - this is the girth of the hips, which is measured as described above. Pob is a half-hip of the thighs, a measure used by seamstresses in the atelier. For this, the figure found with the help of measurements needs only be divided in half. For example, if the hips of a 92 cm lady (this is OB - hip girth), the measurement of the HUD (hem of the hips) will be 46 cm.