How Do I Covertly Determine a Woman's Ring Size

[Walter.P.Higgens]

I need to buy a ring for a friend—nope, it's not for the big one—and I want it to be a sunrise. I don't have access to her jewelry chest, but she does occasionally leave a ring lying on her desk. Does anyone have any tips for covertly determining her ring size?

[Shagnasty]

Study her hands and then find a female friend with similar ones and ask the ring size. Rings can be resized for a nominal fee within a certain range.

You can steal a ring from her and take it to a jeweler. They have simple little tools to measure size from that. Don't be disappointed however, it probably won't cause a "sunrise". Only nature or ultimate Disney love can do that.

[Squink]

Take a picture of her hands against an object you know the size of; a book, a flower, an apple, a brick wall, anything.
Count pixels.
That'll give you the diameter.
Do the same thing with your own hand to get an error estimate.

[astro]

Buying something as personal as jewelry for women without their involvement is a pretty touchy business. Good luck!

[Campion]

Good heavens, people, are none of you detectives?

Buy some play-doh (http://www.hasbro.com/playdoh/) at the store. The next time she leaves her ring on the desk, make an impression of the ring in the play-doh (replacing the ring carefully so she's none the wiser). Ensure the play-doh doesn't deform for the next steps. Take it to a jeweler, if that's the route you're going; otherwise, cut a piece of string and use it to measure the ring size. Compare the string to a ring size chart (http://www.ultradiamonds.com/info/ringsize.gif).

[Cluricaun]

Buy it too small and then pay to get it sized up. When she gets the too small ring just tell her that she has such pretty and dainty hands (even if she could palm a watermelon and has fingers like bratwurst) that you were sure that you'd guessed the right size. This same idea also works with lingere.

[panache45]

Buying something as personal as jewelry for women without their involvement is a pretty touchy business. Good luck!

Hey, it's gonna be a "sunrise"! What's not to love?

[ultrafilter]

Ask one of your mutual female friends to find out for you. It's suspicious if you ask her ring size, but if another woman does it, it's just conversation.

[KRSOradio]

Lucky that almost no woman cares if she has to get a ring resized, they half expect it.

Just arrange for her to get the ring, and you just tell the jeweler you'll pay the cost of the resize and she'll be very happy to get the ring be surprised then take it in for a week till it fits her.

I know that isn't what you asked but woman understand about rings

[pudytat72]

I need to buy a ring for a friend—nope, it's not for the big one—and I want it to be a sunrise. I don't have access to her jewelry chest, but she does occasionally leave a ring lying on her desk. Does anyone have any tips for covertly determining her ring size?

When you see the ring lying on her desk, see how far it will fit on one of your fingers. (pinky finger maybe?) Jeweler has ring sizers you can try on to find similar fit. If she wonders what you are doing, say you wanted to see how her ring looked on your hand!

[cmyk]

Buy it too small and then pay to get it sized up. When she gets the too small ring just tell her that she has such pretty and dainty hands (even if she could palm a watermelon and has fingers like bratwurst) that you were sure that you'd guessed the right size. This same idea also works with lingere.

"Oh, but guess you're a fat cow, after all" Is what she'll be thinking you're thinking after you use that line. Just play ignorant with women, despite this site's motto, it's the best approach in these situations.

You could make up one of those "Internet Quiz Games" that no one takes seriously. Something you "received" in a chain email and try and get her, among others to fill it out, e.g.:

1) What's your shoe size:

2) What's your Ring size:

3) How many drinks does it take to get you drunk?

4) How many wisdom teeth do you still have?

Now multiply the answers from 1 through 3, and add the result from number 4. This is your IQ.

[USCDiver]

You tape a piece of paper around it at night and if the paper is broken in the morning.... wait that's something else.

[Projammer]

Ditto trying it on your own finger.

Alternately, get a piece of cardboard (index card) and cut a strip off at an angle from too small to too large. Slip the ring on it ang mark where it stops.

[Kilgore]

I need to buy a ring for a friend—nope, it's not for the big one—and I want it to be a sunrise. I don't have access to her jewelry chest, but she does occasionally leave a ring lying on her desk. Does anyone have any tips for covertly determining her ring size?

Here. (http://www.bluenile.ca/pdf/bluenile_ringsizer_CAN_copyright2008.pdf)

[madmonk28]

As as already been mentioned, put her ring on one of your fingers and note where it fits on that finger. My wife's rings fit snuggly against the knuckle on my lef hand's ring finger. Knowing this, I can "try on" rings in the store.

[First Amongst Daves]

Buy it too small and then pay to get it sized up.

That can get kind of pricey. A long time ago I bought an ex-girlfriend a platinum ring from Tiffanys. too small, and they don't exchange them so I had to pay to get it sized up. It was expensive. Ex-girlfriend thought I was an idiot for buying one too small, and soon thereafter become an ex-girlfriend.

[glee]

Oh for goodness sake!

Blindfold her, drive her to the store and get the jeweller to measure her. :cool: She won't suspect a thing. :smack:

(Why yes, I don't understand women. How did you know? :confused:)

[maggenpye]

Would she want to replace the ring she's wearing now? If she currently wears the ring on either ring finger, go at least one size up to get a fit for the middle finger.

Apart from that, I second the playdoh idea.

[Mangetout]

Plasticene would be better than play-doh, I think.

[First Amongst Daves]

That's a good idea. Some new, solid blu-tak would be even better, perhaps.

[maggenpye]

Then stick it in a matchbox (or ring box!) to stop it from warping.

[BrotherCadfael]

From The Virginian, by Owen Wister:

"When the ring was achieved, it was an opal, but set with four
small embracing diamonds. Thus was her month stone joined with
his, that their luck and their love might be inseparably clasped.

He found the size of her finger one day when winter had departed,
and the early grass was green. He made a ring of twisted grass
for her, while she held her hand for him to bind it. He made
another for himself. Then, after each had worn their grass ring
for a while, he begged her to exchange. He did not send his token
away from him, but most carefully measured it. Thus the ring
fitted her well, and the lustrous flame within the opal thrilled
his heart each time he saw it. For now June was near its end; and
that other plain gold ring, which, for safe keeping, he cherished
suspended round his neck day and night, seemed to burn with an
inward glow that was deeper than the opal's."

[Sigmagirl]

::swoon::

[DrCube]

1) What's your shoe size:

2) What's your Ring size:

3) How many drinks does it take to get you drunk?

4) How many wisdom teeth do you still have?

Now multiply the answers from 1 through 3, and add the result from number 4. This is your IQ.

This test is great! I have zero wisdom teeth and I still have an IQ of 480! :cool:

[vetbridge]

Teach her to use your table saw. When the inevitable happens, BINGO!

[mr. jp]

Put her finger up your nose

[brewha]

Ask one of your mutual female friends to find out for you. It's suspicious if you ask her ring size, but if another woman does it, it's just conversation.

That's what I did. She didn't suspect a thing.




Put her finger up your nose


:D You win!

But doesn't have to be your ring?

[mnemosyne]

Obtain a caliper, or even a decently accurate ruler. Next time she leaves it lying around, measure the inner diameter of the ring (heck, measure it a couple of times from different orientations and take an average). Bring that number to a jeweler, who will tell you what ring size it corresponds to, and then you can buy the ring.

[Cervaise]

Put her finger up your noseNo no no. Put her ring up your nose. Then you can go to the jewelry store and find a ring that feels the same.

[Dilton Doiley,Philosopher King]

Don't be disappointed however, it probably won't cause a "sunrise". Only nature or ultimate Disney love can do that.

What's a "sunrise"? The best I could find on googling is the name of jewelry companies, but then the above quote wouldn't make any sense.

In case I'm being wooshed (and it really is a company).... is a "sunrise" anything like "morningwood"? If so, good luck! ;) :p

[Sigmagirl]

They're messing around with the OP's having mistyped "surprise" in his question.

[chowder]

No no no. Put her ring up your nose. Then you can go to the jewelry store and find a ring that feels the same.

No, no, no.

Put the ring up your hooter then tell her it's stuck.

Go to jewellers and when he/she ferrets it out just ask 'em to size it when they've scraped all the boogers off it.

Easy peasy man

[Busy Scissors]

Can you not just borrow the ring-measuring device from the jeweller? It's like a pointy, graduated spike that you drop the ring down and note the measurement. Would be 20 seconds of surreptitious work at her desk.

The jeweller won't mind lending you the tool if you're going to spend some money. I did this for my wife's wedding ring.

[cmyk]

This test is great! I have zero wisdom teeth and I still have an IQ of 480! :cool:

Dear god, man! How big are your feet?! (and you might want to lay off the sauce)

[Tastes of Chocolate]

Put the ring up your hooter then tell her it's stuck.

For those of you who don't remember this thread, let me present, my all time favorite and the reason I joined here.
I stuck my wedding ring up my nose. (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209087&highlight=wedding+and+ring+and+nose)

[DrCube]

Dear god, man! How big are your feet?! (and you might want to lay off the sauce)

Size 10 feet, size 8 fingers and a six pack to get me drunk. ;)

Maybe my tolerance is a little high...

[cmyk]

Size 10 feet, size 8 fingers and a six pack to get me drunk. ;)

Maybe my tolerance is a little high...

Yeh, maybe the test is a little geared toward typical women. :p

[Arnold Winkelried]

Obtain a caliper, or even a decently accurate ruler. Next time she leaves it lying around, measure the inner diameter of the ringIf your friend frequently leaves her finger lying around, I would be checking the basement for pods before I bothered buying her a ring.

[Ceejaytee]

My husband found my ring size (for a surprise engagement ring) this way:

S: Hey Ceejaytee, come put your hand on this piece of paper!
C: Why?
S: My niece is doing a project for school where she has to get the handprints of several people to compare. I want to draw the outline of your left hand.
C: Okay.
S: Now, you do mine.

Couple of months later, a new ring in just the right size. :) I totally fell for it.

[BMalion]

Oh for goodness sake!

Blindfold her, drive her to the store and get the jeweller to measure her. :cool: She won't suspect a thing. :smack:

(Why yes, I don't understand women. How did you know? :confused:)

Using a chloroform-soaked hanky on her first will keep the elememt of surprise.

I also recomend kidnapping the jeweler's family to use as insurance to make sure he keeps his trap shut too.

Dynamiting you office as soon as you leave should provide ample distraction.

Good luck!


In my own case it was easy, I just called her twin sister and said "What's your ring size? Keep your mouth shut!"

[Tom Tildrum]

Get your car onto MTV's "Pimp My Ride" and have them install injection molding equipment in your trunk. When she leaves her ring unattended, hustle out to your parking space and extrude 201 Bakelite copies. Give one to the jeweler as a sizing guide, and hand out the rest as favors at the reception.

Or, when she leaves the ring unattended, grab it and stick it into a jar of herring snacks. Have your cat eat the herring and consume the ring in the process. Keep a close eye out, and as the ring emerges a day or two or later, carefully measure the cat's anus.

[Mangetout]

41 replies and no sphincter jokes?

[BMalion]

Get your car onto MTV's "Pimp My Ride" and have them install injection molding equipment in your trunk. When she leaves her ring unattended, hustle out to your parking space and extrude 201 Bakelite copies. Give one to the jeweler as a sizing guide, and hand out the rest as favors at the reception.

Or, when she leaves the ring unattended, grab it and stick it into a jar of herring snacks. Have your cat eat the herring and consume the ring in the process. Keep a close eye out, and as the ring emerges a day or two or later, carefully measure the cat's anus.

Very carefully.

[Ximenean]

41 replies and no sphincter jokes?
Yes, I was going to say. Either fantastic and uncharacteristic self restraint from the board, or "ring" doesn't quite have the double entendre potential that it does over here.

[Tenebras]

Well, I see amputation has been mentioned.

There's always: Psst! What's your ring size?

[TheLoadedDog]

41 replies and no sphincter jokes?

Was wondering, myself. Must be a Commonwealth English thing.

[Mangetout]

I suppose one way to determine the size would be to insert cylindrical objects of progressively larger cross-sectional diameter.

[rocking chair]

strangely, if you can find out her shoe size you will have a base size for a ring if you use u.s. sizes.

example... see the post above where we have size 10 shoe, size 8 ring. with this info i'm figuring the poster has fingers on the thinish side. so you would find out shoe size, look at hands, or play with hands. knuckle to finger muscle ration should give you an idea if the ring size is a bit bigger or smaller than shoe.

i wear a 7 shoe, depending on what finger i have the ring on i can go from 5 pinkie, 6.5-7, next three fingers, and 8 on thumb.

[chowder]

For those of you who don't remember this thread, let me present, my all time favorite and the reason I joined here.
I stuck my wedding ring up my nose. (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209087&highlight=wedding+and+ring+and+nose)

That link must be to one of the funniest threads ever:D

I knew jjimm was weird but not that weird;)

[twickster]

Ask one of your mutual female friends to find out for you. It's suspicious if you ask her ring size, but if another woman does it, it's just conversation.

I am a 53-year-old female who has never had a ring size discussion with another female. If a woman asked me what size ring I wore, I would assume either she or someone she knew wanted to buy me jewelry.

And, BTW, if any of you are interested -- 7. ;)

[Kat]

Hm. I should probably find out my ring size in case someone wants to buy me jewelry have a conversation with me.

[DesertDog]

Plasticene would be better than play-doh, I think.Ah, but I saw in the store the other day little-bitty cans of Play-doh intended to be handed out as Halloween favors. One would readily fit in a pocket and still has the plastic lid to keep the impression from getting squished.

[Mangetout]

Ah, but I saw in the store the other day little-bitty cans of Play-doh intended to be handed out as Halloween favors. One would readily fit in a pocket and still has the plastic lid to keep the impression from getting squished.

Yeah, but play-doh is inherently elastic and quite soft - not only will it bounce back a bit, losing the detail of the impression, it may not keep a very accurate-sized impression of the object pressed into it.

[Zoe]

Hasn't Ivory soap been used to make impressions? You might do a test run first. And you could take just a small piece of the bar. If you are caught with it, tell her you have taken up the hobby of carving little animals. Then whittle it quickly away and telling you're not very good yet.

Or better yet, get a sheet of wax from the dentist's office. Just be sure that it is warm and pliable when you go to do the impression.

[Tenebras]

Hasn't Ivory soap been used to make impressions? You might do a test run first. And you could take just a small piece of the bar. If you are caught with it, tell her you have taken up the hobby of carving little animals. Then whittle it quickly away and telling you're not very good yet.


Yeah, so far you've only worked your way up to round indentations.

"What's that soap for?"
"I'm making fossils!"

[Boozahol Squid, P.I.]

Have you considered cloning her hand as a possibility? When you're done, you'd have Thing's girlfriend!