Place your hands on your waist with your palms facing downward. Move your hands outward and down in a diagonal direction.
Handy Hint: Pretend you’re wearing a skirt and tracing the triangle shape it makes with your hands.
On both hands, extend your thumbs, index and middle fingers, leaving the remaining two resting in your palm. With your palms close together but not touching, hold your hands at hip height then point down one leg, then the other.
Handy Hint: You are pointing down each leg of your trousers.
Place your hands on your upper chest with thumbs pointing upward. Move your hands down to your waist, then outward in a diagonal direction, ending by your hips.
Handy Hint: This is similar to the sign for ‘skirt’ but starts higher on the body like a dress does.
Hold your fingertips to the front of your thighs with fingers together and palms facing upward. Move your hands out to the sides, keeping your fingertips on your thighs.
Handy Hint: Think of tracing the bottom edge of your shorts.
Hold both palms open with fingers together and palms facing upward. Cross your arms and tap the sides of your pinky fingers on your biceps.
Handy Hint: Think of showing someone the short sleeves of your t-shirt.
Extend your index fingers and thumbs on both hands and bring them to your collarbones with fingers pointing upward. Move your hands downward while bringing your fingertips together on both hands.
Handy Hint: Think of showing someone the crisp collar of your shirt.
Make a fist with both hands and hold them on your chest, near your armpits, with your thumb on top. Bring your fists together moving inward, then down.
Handy Hint: Think of pulling your jacket over your shoulders as you put it on.
On both hands, make a small circle with your index fingers and thumbs. Touch the tips of your index fingers and thumbs to your hips then to your waist.
Handy Hint: Think of pulling your delicate underpants onto your waist.
On both hands, make a small circle with your index fingers and thumbs. Begin with palms facing forward, then twist your wrist so that your palms end facing your body.
Handy Hint: Think of gently pulling up a pair of socks.
Hold both hands in fists by your temples with your palms facing your head, then move your hands down to chin height.
Handy Hint: Think of pulling a hat onto your head.
Hold your non-dominant hand up with your palm facing you, fingers together and thumb tucked in. With your other hand making a narrow ‘U’ shape with all fingers, slide down around your non-dominant hand from your fingertips to your wrist.
Handy Hint: Imagine putting on a glove. Repeat on the other hand to sign ‘gloves’ as a plural.
Hold your non-dominant hand bent in front of you with fingers together and palm facing downward. With your other hand in the same shape, slide it over the back of your first hand from fingertips to wrist.
Handy Hint: Imagine one hand as your foot and you’re sliding it into your shoe.
Make ‘V’ shapes with both hands by extending and separating your index and middle fingers. Place your middle fingers onto your cheekbones and tap twice.
Handy Hint: Think of framing your eyes like a pair of glasses.