Since Covid has made close interpersonal time with people who are not members of one’s own household a problem, coming in to the costume studio just for measurements, or asking a friend to come over to do measurements, are potentially a hazard.

While some brief interpersonal time may be unavoidably needed for a costume fitting, for the duration of the current plague we want to make this sort of thing as minimal as possible.

One of the ways performers can help is by learning to take accurate measurements of oneself at home.

The first thing one needs is a soft cloth, flexible plastic or paper tape measure. (Metal carpentry ones, like the one in the mouth shown above, are too difficult to use for this purpose) You may have one of these soft tailor’s tapes at home, or can often find these at a dollar store, but if neither of those options is available, you can simply print out and assemble one like this free one from inchcalculator.com:

If you are an actor in our 2021 Spring Musical film at DVC Head Over Heels, you will also want to use one of our sheets that uses the absolute minimum measurements we need, which you can print here: DVC Self-Measurement Sheet for Actors. When you have completed your sheet take a clear photo of it and text the photo to my newly fixed cell phone number: 415 no spam 272 no spam 5157 (Remove the “no spam” part of course)

If you are NOT an actor in Head Over Heels, but still want to learn about measurement for costumes there are a lot of great how to videos that explain all sorts of measurement types: