The procedures for making a ch'i-p'ao can be generally divided into the following steps: measuring the body, cutting, sewing, pulling in at the waist line, putting on the collar and sewing the border. Whether a ch'i-p'ao "has a good fit and suits the body" is largely determined during the measuring.
製作旗袍的程序大抵可分量身、裁剪、車縫、拔腰、上領、滾邊等步驟，而旗袍做出來是不是能「合身適體」，卻在量身時已大勢底定。