You have two options for Alterations
1. Instructions for measuring your clothes with a tape measure for Alterations.
2. Instructions for pinning your clothes with safety pins for alterations with pictures.
( Shorten Clothes Length Or Hem) (Taking In, Make Your Clothes Smaller)
( Lengthen Length or Hem, Make Your Clothes Longer) ( Let Out Clothes, Make Your Clothes Bigger)
How to measure your body
To take accurate measurements, you will need a tape measure, pen, and paper. Please write all the measurements in centimetres.
We may require your bust or chest, waist, hip, sleeves, and leg measurements for simple alterations.
When measuring your body, it’s important to wear the underwear you’d wear with the garment and not wear bulky clothing.
For accuracy, we recommend taking your measurements in front of a mirror.
For advanced alterations, such as on suits or evening wear, a fitting may be required. You can book one of our tailors to measure or pin your garment in your home or workplace.
How to measure your bust or chest, waist, hip, sleeves, and legs
We need these measurements for shortening, taking in, or letting out fabric on suits, jackets, coats, shirts, trousers, dresses, skirts, blouses, and T-shirts. Stand in front of a mirror, wrap a tape measure around the parts of the clothes you need us to alter, and let the tape measure sit comfortably – not too tight and not too loose. Write all the measurements in centimetres.
1-Chest & Bust:
For all garments that require chest and bust alterations (taking in or letting out fabric), wrap a tape measure around your chest and write down the measurement.
2-Bust:
Wrap a tape measure around your bust and write down the measurement. Let the tape measure sit comfortably – not too tight and not too loose, with just enough ease to move.
3-Waist:
For all garments that require waist alterations (taking in or letting out fabric), wrap a tape measure around the smallest part of your waist, with just enough ease to move.
4-Hip:
For all garments that require hip alterations (taking in or letting out fabric), wrap a tape measure around the fullest part of your hip, with just enough ease to move.
5-Legs:
We only need one leg measurement for all garments that require leg alterations (taking in or letting out fabric).
A: Thigh – wrap a tape measure around the fullest part of your thigh, close to the crotch line of trousers, and write down the measurement.
B: Knee – wrap a tape measure around the fullest part of your knee and write down the measurement.
C: Ankle – wrap a tape measure around the fullest part of your ankle and write down the measurement.
Shorten length:
To shorten the length of your garment or hem, fold extra fabric out to the desired length of your trousers legs, jeans legs, jacket length, dress, skirt length, sleeves length, shirt length, or T-shirt length, and measure the extra folded fabric, write all the measurements in centimetres.
6-Letting out:
For all garments that need to be made bigger or wider in any parts, we need to know if your garment has extra fabric inside from the seam of the clothes. Then, you can tell us how many centimetres you want us to make it bigger or wider, write all the measurements in centimetres on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
7-Lengthen:
For all garments that need to be lengthened (longer length or hem), we can lengthen trousers' hem, jacket sleeves, and more. When you don't have enough hem to let down, we can lengthen your garments by adding fabric inside the hem or length and keep the length clothes original.
8-Collection:
After measuring, write down all the measurements in centimetres along with your details, name, surname, phone number, and email address on paper and pack it with the garment for collection. We will collect your garment, and when the job is done, we will deliver it to you.
Read More About (How It Works), ( How To Measure Your Body).
Read More About Clothes Alterations and Repair. ( Shorten Clothes Length Or Hem), ( Lengthen Length or Hem, Make Your Clothes Longer)
(Let Out Clothes, Make Your Clothes Bigger), (Taking In, Make Your Clothes Smaller)
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Read More About Bag Repair And Restoration.
Read More About Shoes Repair And Restoration.
Read More About Belts Repair And Restoration.
Read More About Bespoke Suits, Shirts, Trousers, Coat, Belts.
Read More About Buttonholes & Buttons.
Read More About Collections & Delivery.
Body Measurements for Jacket, Coat and Shirt
( to make the neck smaller or bigger by adding or moving a button )
Neck:
1-Lead the tape measure from the left side of the client's neck.
2. Take the tape with left hand
3. Fix the tape on the right side of the neck
4. Pinch the tape with the left hand
with tow-finger allowance, neither loose nor tight
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(for shortening and lengthening sleeves length of Coat, Jacket, Shirts,Dress)
Sleeve length:
1. Fix the tape on the right shoulder endpoint, from top of the sleeves.
(You can add or reduce the size according to customers dressing habit)
2. Let the tape stay at the upper knuckle of the middle finger,
Let the tape sit and relax and don't pull the tape.
3. Hold the tape on the client's cuff.
and ask how would you like the sleeve length?
3. Hold the tape on the client's cuff.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the sleeves of Coat, Jacket, Shirts, Dress)
Bicep:
1. Measure the plumpest part of the bicep horizontally for one round,
with a four-finger allowance,
2. Keep the tape not too tight or too loose.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the sleeves cuff of Coat, Jacket, Shirts, Dress)
Wrist:
1- Place the measuring tape around the wrist,
2-not too tight or too loose
3-place the tape close to the wrist and with a tow-finger allowance.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to cut the extra fabric on the shoulder of Coat, Jacket, Waistcoat, Shirts, and Dress)
Shoulder width: (to cut the extra fabric on the shoulder)
1. Keep the client collars tidy and neat
2. observe from the sides of the customer,
3. divide the diameter of the neck into four parts,
generally, the shoulder neck point is located on
the position of a quarter of the neck diameter,
it is the intersectant peak between the neck and shoulder line.
3. divide the diameter of the neck into four parts,
generally, the shoulder neck point is located on
the position of a quarter of the neck diameter,
it is the intersectant peak between the neck and shoulder line.
3. Fix the tape start point
on the shoulder neck point, and let the tape cross
the ridgy shoulder line, stand in a side way for observing,
and let the tape drop naturally after pass the ridgy shoulder line.
4. observe the intersectant point between the tape along shoulder
and the tape along arm,
the shoulder point is 0.5cm above the intersectant point,
fix it with shoulder sticker.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to shorten or lengthen _ the length of the Coat, Jacket, Waistcoat, Shirt, Dress)
Back length:
0. If your clothes don't have a collar you can use this method
Red note: Locating the position of the crouch and hip by horizontally touching your forefinger.
1. Stand in a straight, natural posture, and Fix the tape on the middle of the back of the Collar in a horizontal line.
1. Fix the tape on the middle horizontal line
and measure to the nape line then the waist and hip you can keep the length longer or shorter measurement.
1. Fix the tape on the middle horizontal line
and measure to the nape line then the waist and hip you can keep the length longer or shorter measurement.
1. Fix the tape on the middle horizontal line
and measure to the nape line then the waist and hip you can keep the length longer or shorter measurement.
2. Measure to the hip.
(You can add or reduce according to customers' requirements)
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the chest for Coat, Jacket, Shirts, and Dress)
Chest:
1. Reserve half chest measurement in tape before measuring.
2 . Lead the tape from the crook of the left arm
and hold it with left hand.
3 . Measure one round the fullest part of chest,
and keep the tape horizontally
4. Hold the tape with left hand and fix it on the center of chest,
with two fingers allowance and keep the tape
not too tight or too loose.
please stand naturally, how would you like your clothes,
to be normal or to be loose?
4. Hold the tape with left hand and fix it on the center of chest,
with two fingers allowance and keep the tape
not too tight or too loose.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the Stomch line for Coat, Jacket, Shirts, and Dress)
Stomach
Red note :The stomach is the slimmest part that below the rib, but not the most projecting part in belly.
1-Lead the tape from the crook of customers left arm.
2. Regard the thinnest position of the back waist as a datum point
and measure the round horizontally.
with two finger allowance, not too tight or too loose
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
Body Measurements forTrousers and Chinos
(to take in or let out the Waist for Trousers, jeans, Coat, Jacket, Shirts, Dress and Skirts)
Waits
Definition: Measure the edge of the customers belt for one round with two fingers allowance, and keep the tape a little bit tight.
(adjust the size according to customer dressing habit, if customer prefers to be tight, just deduct 1cm.)
1. Find out clients belt position by communicating before measuring.
1. Before measuring, could you please tell me
your usual belt fastened position?
2. Reserve about half waist size in the tape,
measure the edge of the customers belt for one round
with two finger allowance and make it a little bit tight.
2. Reserve about half waist size in the tape,
measure the edge of the customers belt for one round
with two finger allowance and make it a little bit tight.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
4. If the customer is not sure about his belt position,
we can take the stomach belt as the temporary belt
and fix it for the customer.
(usually, to fix it on the customers hipbone position)
1. Before measuring, could you please tell me
your usual belt fastened position?
about half waist size in the tape,
measure the edge of the customer's belt for one round
with two finger allowance and make it a little bit tight.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the Hip of Trousers, jeans, Coat, Jacket, Shirts, Dress and Skirts)
Hip
1. Please communicate with customer
about the stand gesture before measuring.
2.Stand on the right side of the customer,
and find out the fullest part of the hip.
2. Stand on the right side of the customer,
and find out the fullest part of the hip to measure.
3.Measure the fullest part for one round and
keep the tape horizantally,
with two fingers allowance and make sure
the tape neither too tight nor too loose.
In order to get an accurate measurement result,
could you please keep your pocket empty and stand naturally
3. Measure the fullest part for one round and
keep the tape horizantally,
with two fingers allowance and make sure
the tape neither too tight nor too loose.
In order to get an accurate measurement result,
could you please keep your pocket empty and stand naturally
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the crotch of Trousers, jeans and jumpsuit)
U-rise
1-Place the tape on the top point of the back waistband
when finished the thigh measurement.
2. Let the tape cross the crotch and then
lift it to the top point of the front waistband.
3. Communicate with customer about the tightness
when you lifting the tape.
Get the measurement by looking at customers eyes
and feeling his reaction.
Do you think this tightness is suitable with you?
2. Let the tape cross the crotch and then
lift it to the top point of the front waistband.
3. Communicate with customer about the tightness
when you lifting the tape.
Get the measurement by looking at customers eyes
and feeling his reaction.
Do you think this tightness is suitable with you?
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the Thigh of Trousers, jeans and Jumpsuits)
Thigh
1. Lead the tape from the customers right knee.
2. Move the tape horizontally to the plumpest part of the thigh,
measure one round and with two fingers allowance,
make sure the tape is not too tight or too loose.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to take in or let out the Thigh of Trousers, jeans and Jumpsuits)
Calf girth
1-Measure horizontally around the calf at its fullest point,
not too tight or too loose
don't put any finger allowance.
1. Measure horizontally around the calf at its fullest point,
not too tight or too loose
don't put any finger allowance.
1. Measure horizontally around the calf at its fullest point,
not too tight or too loose
don't put any finger allowance.
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.
(to shorten or lengthen the Hem of Trousers, jeans, and Jumpsuits)
Pant length
1-Fix the tape start point on the top point of the side waistband
2. Measure along with the outseam to ground,
deducting 2cm for normal length, this is for open and unhem lenght of the Trousers
(you can add or reduce according to customers' requirements)
Ask the customer how would like your pants lenght?
write all the measurements in centimeters on paper and pack them with the garment for collection.