Measurements

• Measure your bust:
• To do this, wrap tape around your back and over the fullest part of your bust. Exhale when taking this measurement.
• Measure your waist:
• To do this, wrap tape around the smallest part of your waist, below your ribs and above your navel.
• Measure your hips:
• To do this, wrap tape around the fullest part of your hips, ensuring that tape touches your hipbone on both sides of the top of your leg, but not your buttocks.

• Compare measurements to relevant size chart to find your size.

Tip: if your measurements fall between two sizes, it is always a good idea to go for the larger size

• Remove bulky clothing.
• Always measure using an upstretched measuring tape.
• Keep tape at the same level around your body.
• Overbust: measure around your back and over the fullest part of your bust.
• Underbust: measure around your back and directly under your bust.

1. You must first be wearing a bra.
2. Ensure that you are standing up straight.
3. The first measurement will be from the middle of the throat down to the nipple.
4. The above measurement from middle of the throat down to nipple must be between 21-26cm. If measurement exceeds this, tighten the straps of the bra that you are wearing to ensure that your breasts are in the right place to be measured correctly. This is very important to ensure that said measurements are accurate.
5. See below diagram for final instructions:

6. Measure around the body directly under the bust while wearing a bra.
Find the corresponding measurement in column A.
7. Measure around the fullest part of the bust, while wearing a bra.
Find the corresponding measurement in line with the determined under-bust size.
This gives you the cup size.

PLEASE NOTE:

“With These Hands” recommends that if a garment is smaller in size, to order 1 size up, from your usual size.

“With These Hands” recommends that if a garment is larger in size, to order 1 size smaller, than your usual size.

FREE SIZE:
This means that the garment is made from yarn which offers a fit that is accommodating to different body types and sizes. Usually, it can be worn by ladies who are between Small/32 – Large/36, as per standard South African sizes, merely offering a different fit for each body type. Also known as “one size fits all”.

Panty: To measure your hips, wrap tape around the fullest part of your hips, ensuring that tape touches your hipbone on both sides of the top of your leg, but not your buttocks.

Panty: To measure your hips, wrap tape around the fullest part of your hips, ensuring that tape touches your hipbone on both sides of the top of your leg, but not your buttocks.