Free template
One page with the ten measurements a tailor needs for a lehenga and its choli, a blank for centimetres and one for inches, and a line on where each is taken. Print it, or fill it on your phone and send a photo.
Download the PDF (A4) US Letter PDF Fill it by phone scan instead
This is the one-page lehenga and choli sheet from the full tailor measurement form. It is the form customers ordering from Canada, the UK and the US send to tailors in India and Pakistan. Each measurement is explained, with a size chart, in the lehenga and choli measurement guide.
Before you start: use a soft tape over thin clothing, snug but never tight, and write body measurements only. The tailor adds the room the style needs. Each field links to the guide that explains it, and the body measurement chart shows what your numbers mean on a size label.
| Measurement | cm | inches | Where it is taken |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bust | fullest part of the chest, level | ||
| Underbust | around the ribcage under the bust | ||
| Waist | natural waist, or where you want the skirt to sit | ||
| Hips | fullest part of the seat; the skirt must pass over it | ||
| Lehenga length | waist to floor in the shoes you will wear, minus 1 cm | ||
| Shoulder width | across the back, bone to bone | ||
| Armhole | around the shoulder joint | ||
| Sleeve length | shoulder bone to the hem you want | ||
| Choli length | shoulder to the hem, above or at the waist | ||
| Front and back neck depth | base of neck to neckline |
Style notes to add: flare in metres, can-can or lining, waistband with zip or drawstring, dupatta drape, heel height.
Measure in the underwear and shoes you will wear with the garment, standing straight, with someone holding the tape wherever you cannot see it. Take each girth level all the way round and read at the end of a normal breath. Write every number with its unit, and never round to the nearest inch; a fitted blouse notices half a centimetre. Fill the style notes: sleeve length and neckline for a blouse, kameez length and mohri for a suit, the shoe height for a lehenga, and the collar for a kurta or sherwani. Those words save the tailor a guess.
If you are sending the form to a tailor in another country, photograph it flat in good light, or better, scan yourself on Silai and let the sheet travel with the order: the tailor receives every field above from a two minute phone video, and there is no commission on the order.
Prop your phone, turn around twice, and the scanner fills every body field on these sheets in about two minutes, free, for men and women.