sizing for children

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- Liz
  
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16 years ago

Sun, Feb 10, 2008 5:20 AM

I am doing a sewing project for a school play making basic tunics for grades K and 1. I am working w/o a pattern and cannot possibly take measurements for all 100 children. Does anyone know of a sizing chart based on age that I can use as a guide. Any other suggetsions on how to do this mass project would be appreciated. I am definatley not a dressmaker, and a novice sewer. Thanks.

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- Joy Beeson
  
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16 years ago

Sun, Feb 10, 2008 6:47 PM

Can you measure the shortest child and the tallest?

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- Kay Lancaster
  
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16 years ago

Mon, Feb 11, 2008 3:42 AM

Do they still line up the kids by height in school? If so, measure the shortest and tallest, and the maximum and minimum diameters among a representative few. If the school thinks this might be somehow disruptive or "size-ist", could they trace the outlines of all the kids on a sheet of newsprint, and you could then see your size ranges?

A school with a lot of kids with a, say, Japanese genetic background is likely to have a different sample size and distribution among the kids than a school with a population from Scandanavian countries. And neither school will probably accurately map to the "average" sizes of all US kindergarteners.

I assume these will be simple t-tunic type garments, and they can either be belted to take up excess length, or quickly turned up and staple-hemmed at school?

Kay