Finding the right dress size is no easy task. To make it perfectly fit your figure, you have to consider many physical parameters. You need to know your height, chest, waist and hips, as well as learn how to correctly determine the appropriate size of the finished product.
When buying clothes in shopping malls or online stores, many often can not accurately determine the required size. "42" is a marking, meaning for women’s clothing a volume along the chest line.
Characteristics of the Russian scale
The domestic dimensional grid has recently undergone some changes, and now it is close to the new proportions of a modern woman. However, if you are the owner of a non-standard figure, then the search for a suitable clothing size is much more complicated.
You may need to abandon the finished dresses and purchase a jacket and skirt of different sizes, or sew custom-made outfits. To choose the right dress, you first need to make individual measurements of the figure.
Today, mass clothing is made by average female standards. The modern scale begins with 156 cm (previously - from 160 cm). For example, for sewing a standard dress 42 sizes today, the average height of 168 cm is taken as the basis (before that it was 164 cm).
In the Russian Federation, clothing size is determined by the half-circumference of the chest (for the shoulder products) and hips (for the waist products). In particular, the size of the dress according to Russian standards is defined as the size of the chest circumference, divided by 2. The standard size range from 40 to 60 has three completenesses: small (M), medium (C) and large (B). For example, size 42 is a shoulder clothing for women with a chest volume of 84/2 = 42 cm. Starting from size 62 of dresses, fullness is considered very large (OB). Half of the female population has an average completeness, off the scale of 3.5% of our ladies.
How to decipher the numbers on the label?
Labeling of dresses according to Russian standards contains 3 leading parameters: height, chest and hips. For fitted models (without a belt), the waist circumference is indicated . Of the additional values, the completeness, length of the product, hips, shoulder width, neck circumference, leg length, wrist girth and others are indicated.
This information allows you to determine whether clothes suit your size without trying on. In order to correlate the marking of Russian clothes with their own standards, you need to multiply the number on it by 2.
For example, if the label of a dress made in the Russian Federation has a size of 42, this means that it will suit women with a chest volume of 84 cm.
International grid size
Labeling clothes on the European scale includes 2 leading parameters: height and chest circumference. To quickly bring the European standard to the Russian one, it is enough to add 6 units to the number meaning the girth of the chest. For example, a jacket whose label indicates size 42 is a product similar in size to domestic size 48. According to international classification, such a dress will be marked with the letter M / L (from the English Medium / Large).
Size Matching Methods
To bring the Russian labeling to international, you can use the size chart or the online calculator for calculating the size of women's clothing. The second option is more convenient, because it allows you to accurately transform someone else’s metric system in inches into our usual centimeter scale.
In addition, the calculator calculates the required size based on specific physical parameters. The compliance of Russian and international dress sizes can also be determined by the table.
If all the measurements were taken correctly, then it will not be difficult to find out your size of the summer dress. For example, the female size 42 is the European 36, and the international S, corresponding to the parameters 84-62-90 (chest - waist - hips). These values are averaged, so your measurements may differ from the numbers on the label within 1 cm in one direction or another.
If your proportions do not correspond to growth or differ from standard ones, then when choosing clothes it is unreasonable to focus only on the chest circumference as the main criterion for determining the size. If, for example, the bust in girth is 84 cm, and the hips for measurements are 94 cm, the size of the dress is selected based on a larger size, that is, you need to purchase 44 size.