waist measure

Also I disliked very much having told him my waist measure which is large owing to Basket Ball.

From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

You wouldn't have thought so had you dropped in upon us and scanned his waist measure, but then, of course, you don't know Marny.

From Fiddles 1909 by Francis Hopkinson Smith

I like that," he said, "a man with a forty-two waist measure, wearing an eighteen inch collar, finding fault with a woman's double chin.

From Purple Springs by Nellie L. McClung

If the woman whose waist measure is 27 inches wears a corset of the same size, so that her waist is not compressed at all, there is added a force of 40 pounds.

From Almost a Woman by Mary Wood-Allen

Always cut parallel with the selvage and the length of the underlap longer than the waist measure, allowing for turning at the ends.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson