MS FICK-JORDAAN
Well, in pattern making really is what identifies the size of a garment.  There are certain measurements that one takes that are crucial to the construction.
	The most important being the bust measurement, the waist measurement and then the measurements from the shoulder to the waist and the waist to the hem.  The waist to the hem, giving a sort of rough guide, but obviously due to fashion and - women's length of dresses can vary, so that is a little bit harder I think to pin point the exact height of a person.
	That is really, I worked on those four major measurements.  I also looked at the size of the belt that came with the dress that, I will call it the exhumed dress, and had to look, was particularly looking at whether that belt belonged to the dress and how that affected the proportions as well.