measuring your sit bones

[GLC1968]

How do you measure any other part of your body?

Use a cloth (or plastic) measure. Use one hand to hold the 0 end on one butt point and use the other hand to pinch the part of the tape over your other butt point.

Ditto this.

Hold a fabric measuring tape in one hand. Lie on your back and flip your legs into the air (kind of over your head but you don't need to go that far). Feel for the sit bones and then hold the tape at each bone point. Flip upright without letting go of the tape and read your measurement. Voila!

I never had luck with the sitting on gel-like things as I have way to much butt padding to get a good reading.

I was surprised at how narrow my sit bones were. I always thought that being a big bottomed girl meant that I had wide hips. Not so much (which explains why my thighs will ALWAYS touch no matter how thin I get!).

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Ditto this.

Hold a fabric measuring tape in one hand. Lie on your back and flip your legs into the air (kind of over your head but you don't need to go that far). Feel for the sit bones and then hold the tape at each bone point. Flip upright without letting go of the tape and read your measurement. Voila!

I never had luck with the sitting on gel-like things as I have way to much butt padding to get a good reading.

I was surprised at how narrow my sit bones were. I always thought that being a big bottomed girl meant that I had wide hips. Not so much (which explains why my thighs will ALWAYS touch no matter how thin I get!).

Ditto...all of it. Even when I was a size 2 (by modern sizing) in HS I wore the inner thighs of my jeans out fast. At the time I was all of 115#s at 5'3"ish.

[OakLeaf]

I think making an impression is better than using a tape measure, because the sitbones aren't parallel to the sagittal plane. An impression gives you not only the inside and outside measurements, but the angle.

And I think the inner thigh rub has to do with Q-angle and adductor development. It's an issue for me and my moderately wide bones, too.

[Chicken Little]

I am thinking the water base paint thing might work. I'm trying it this weekend.