Step 1: Determine Your Underwear Size
Why is this important?
Like a lot of things in the clothing industry, underwear sizing is not uniform across the board. Fortunately, most brands will provide a sizing chart to help you decide what size you need. However, to make the most of these charts, you need to know your waist and hip measurements.
What You Will Need:
A soft measuring tape
Tight clothes or your birthday suit (anything that’s very loose or bulky can affect your measurements.)
How to Measure:
With your back straight and your feet together, hold the measuring tape against your left hip and wrap it around your rear, then bring it to your right hip. From there you will stretch the tape across you and to the left. The number that sits over your finger where you started is your hip measurement.
Make sure when you start measuring your finger is on the 1.
Make sure the tape is level all the way around.
Write down your hip measurement in either inches or cm.
You will find your natural waist between the bottom of your rib cage and just above your hip bones.
Beginning on the left, circle around your back, the right side, and then across to where you are holding the beginning of the tape.
The number beneath where your fingers meet is your waist measurement.
Write down this number in either inches or cm.
Deciphering Size Charts:
Most underwear size charts will offer you a range of measurements that are equal to the sizes of their product.
For example, they might say that if your waist is between 26 to 28 inches and your hip is between 36.5 to 38.5 inches you need a size Small.
In general, it is best to choose your larger measurement and use that as your guide.
For example, if your hip measurement is 43 inches but your waist is 31 inches, you should choose the XL.
Step 2: Understand Underwear Terminology
Step 3: Choose a Style that Flatters and Fits your Bits
Need Help?
Visit our store in the Pointe-Claire Village to consult a specialist on the underwear style that suits you best, or send us an email at info@lingeriedebra.com