as a literal minded, functional autist, I need some clarification.
I am documenting my own individual measurements, and when creating the new file and referencing the positions - using the offered ‘Measurement Diagram’ - of the body-part that needs measuring, I see only a female figure in lateral view.
I therefore take it - hopefully not having missed anything - that this view is to be considered ‘Uni-Sex’ and not showing areas that are gender specific.
Sorry for perhaps asking about the obvious, but I do have to contend with the ‘Autistic’ thing!
As far as I know, there is no difference in the way of taking measurement between men and women.
But there are more measurements for women because women have prominent boobs. For example, bustpoint_to_bustpoint, bustpoint_to_neck_front etc. Taking these measurements for men is useless.
Perhaps, there are conflicting literature about taking “chest circumference”. Modern and most patternmaking books refer it as “chest circumference” for men, and “bust circumference” for women, or sometimes interchangeably. Both are taken by measuring the largest circumference around the chest, which include the boobs (bust_circ).
But some old patternmaking books (Burgo, Donnanno) differentiate between “chest circumference” and “bust circumference” when taking women measurement. I assume they mean “highbust_circ” in Seamly.
This does beg (@ least) one more question : Is there in SeamlyMe some sort of indication as to the particular gender for which a dimension / measurement is relevant?
What @najdmie said. That, and women will have a Chest (under bust), bust and over bust measurements… as well as bust point to bust point, shoulder to bust point. That being said… men do have bustpoints… it’s just that there’s going to be little if any difference between Chest and Bust. Also in general there’s rarely a need to draft with a man’s bust points in mind - at least not in fashion. In 40+ years in my costume shop we might have run across that need a handful of times.
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Thanx 