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Getting started with Dress Measurement
Set up Dress Measurement in a few minutes on iPhone, iPad or Android: your first profile, your height, fit and sizing region, and where your measurements live once setup is done.
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Creating and managing profiles
Every person you measure gets a profile. Here is how to create one, which fields are required, how many the free plan holds, and how to find one once you have several.
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Measuring
Taking measurements
Tap a label on the body to enter a measurement with a tape, read the guidance for where the tape goes, switch units, and track how a measurement changes over time.
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Measuring with a body scan
The body scan turns three photos, front, side and back, into a silhouette you can measure. Here is what the scan needs, how the capture runs, and how to check the result.
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Sharing scan data
Optional, anonymous sharing of your Body Scan measurements helps train better automatic measurements. It is off unless you agree. Here is what is shared, what never is, and how to turn it off.
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Drawing measurements on your scan
Once a scan is finished you can draw a measurement straight onto the photos. The app turns the lines you draw into a circumference or a length and saves it to the profile.
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Getting a size recommendation
The Sizes tab turns the measurements on a profile into a size for each brand, in the sizing region you choose, with a confidence level and the numbers behind it. Size recommendations are free on every plan.
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Measurement features
Custom measurements
Draw a measurement your shop actually uses on a page of its own, name it, add instructions and a reference photo, then enter it like any built-in measurement.
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Reference measurements
Reference lines are guides with no value attached. Draw them on a page to show exactly where a measurement starts and stops, so whoever takes it measures the same thing you did.
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Photos and notes
Keep fabric shots, sketches and written notes with the client they belong to, or with the single order they were taken for, so nothing about a garment lives only in your head.
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Tailor Shop
These tools need a Tailor Shop subscription, on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Tailor Shop
Tailor Shop adds client contact details, orders, invoices, a fitting schedule and client messaging to Dress Measurement, so one app carries a job from the first measurement to the final payment.
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Set up your business profile
Your shop name, tagline, logo, contact details, website and social handles sit in one screen and print on every invoice and receipt you send a client.
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Add and manage clients
With Tailor Shop on, a profile becomes a client record with a phone number, an email address, a preferred channel, an address, a birthday and tags.
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Track orders through the workshop
The Orders tab holds every garment you have in hand, with six stages from received to done, and a detail screen that reaches the fitting, the invoice and the client.
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Invoices and payments
Raise an invoice from an order, record deposits and part payments against it, mark it settled, and send the client a PDF.
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Fittings and the schedule
The Schedule tab lists every fitting, pickup, consultation and alteration by day, with the next one at the top, and can remind you before each one.
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Messaging clients
Send a client a status update by WhatsApp, SMS or email, using five ready-made messages that fill in the name, the garment, the fitting date and, for an appointment invite, the place and a calendar link.
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Profile management
Exporting measurements as PDF or CSV
Send one profile as a printable PDF measurement sheet, or export several clients as a spreadsheet, without leaving the app.
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App settings and profile settings
Set your default units, appearance, cloud sync and measuring guides for the whole app, and change one profile's name, units, skin tone or fit preference.
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Sync and backup
Keep your profiles backed up automatically: iCloud on iPhone and iPad, and Cloud Sync, part of Tailor Shop, on Android. Compare what is stored in the cloud against what is on the device, and on iPhone and iPad keep a local backup as a second copy.
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Reference
How to measure your body
Step-by-step instructions for taking accurate body measurements at home.
Popular questions
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What is Dress Measurement?
Dress Measurement is a body measurement and size recommendation app for iPhone and Android. You can capture measurements two ways: manually with a tape measure, or using Body Scan, where you scan yourself with your phone camera and then draw on the screen at the exact points you want measured. Both methods are free on every tier. The app stores measurements in organized profiles, gives you instant size recommendations across 122 supported clothing brands, and exports your data as PDF or CSV. It is built for tailors who need a client measurement book as well as for online shoppers who want to stop guessing their size.
Is the app free?
Yes. The Free tier is genuinely free and includes manual measurement entry, Body Scan with your phone camera, size recommendations across all supported brands, iCloud backup on iPhone, PDF export, and up to 7 profiles on iPhone and Android. There are no ads on iPhone or Android.
Does it sync across devices?
Yes. On iPhone and iPad, Dress Measurement uses iCloud to sync profiles and measurements across your Apple devices automatically; it works on the Free tier, and advanced iCloud settings are available on the Tailor Shop tier. On Android, Cloud Sync does the same job as part of a Tailor Shop subscription: sign in with Google or an email address, and your data syncs across every Android device signed in to that account.
Can I use Dress Measurement for sewing patterns?
Yes. Home sewists use Dress Measurement to store body measurements and reference them against pattern size charts, the same way tailors use it for clients. On the Tailor Shop tier you can add custom measurements like crotch depth, armscye, sleeve pitch, or back shoulder slope that most pattern size charts assume but generic body-measurement apps leave out.
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