Lardbelly, or "the tale of the tail" and Barb's fine book

[fluter]

44 waist
46 hips?

46 true waist, 44 at the "Levi's waist," 46 hips. Sounds like a cylinder.

But if I'm reading correctly, there's a bit of an overhang at the tummy & "underhang" in the behinder parts. Sounds like a trapezoid.

I have inferred --- and I await being corrected by the experts! that the conventional approach is to measure the hips as though the line of the tummy continued straight down, so that the aprons will hang straight down from the true waist in front.