Clothes sizing (RANT) SORRY
Clothes sizing (RANT) SORRY
Last night i thought i would have a mooch around town for some new clothes since ive recently had a huge clearout and havent got much left.
So off i went credit card in hand and came back with NOTHING.
Firstly alot of stores had another sale on and they were full of rubbish and secondly the sizing on clothing seems to be extremely variable wherever you shop.
I tried on a number of items ranging from a size 14 to a size 18.
i feel totally crap now as i am not excessively over weight ( 12 stone 5 ft 8) and nothing seemed to fit.
Jeans for example in river island the size 18 were too small and then in New look size 14 too big on my waist.
So far as tops goes, anything which has a sniff of designer about it, Large equals size 10
Primark was equally as bad i tried on pair of combats, the same style and size as the one i was wearing and i couldnt even get them over my hips.
WHats going on, am i just a odd shape, an in between size or just having a bad night.
So all i spent was my train fair to get into town and came home feeling crap.
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I completely sympathise. I am similar proportions to you, and yesterday I bought clothes from size 12 to size 16. And suddenly I'm a size 8 in shoes - I've always been a 6.5 to 7.
I don't think you should let it affect your self esteem though. I used to let it - but I just think bugger it, if I look good I look good, it doesn't matter what it says on the label. I am looking a bit slack at the moment though, I haven't been so well recently but hopefully next week I'll start going swimming again to tone up a bit.
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There was something in the news the other week about clothes sizes being based on outdated notions of what women look like and don't fit the average British woman.
I bought 3 tops in 3 different sizes in one shop! And I can't get H&M dresses to fit as they're usually too small on the chest and if I get a size up its baggy under the arms and around the waist!
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I currently live in Spain where the clothes are so tiiiiiny! In the UK I would be a 10/12. I was trying on trousers the other day and at a size 42 they were too small. The sales assistant unhelpfully told me that was the biggest size and that I should lose weight!
I don't feel so big that I should be denied access to fashion and nobody should anyway. Some of the clothes that I pick up and look at are size 34 and they are so small that even if I starved for the next six months, which I am not about to do, I would never fit into them.
I see plenty of size 16s and full figured women going around and I wonder what they do for clothes as the high fashion stores just don't cater for their sizes.
I think that although they might get some sizes wrong, the UK are still more realistic in their sizes than out here.
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My Mum lives in Spain and has the same problem, she has to travel to Murcia and goes to El Corte Ingles but it's pricey.
She was saying that if someone were to open an Evans type store in their town it would make a mint.....business idea perhaps?
As for sizing in this country - pah! I just live with the fact that in H&M I'm a size bigger than normal, never go into River Island and cut the labels out if they say anything outrageous. :p
Last night i thought i would have a mooch around town for some new clothes since ive recently had a huge clearout and havent got much left.
So off i went credit card in hand and came back with NOTHING.
Firstly alot of stores had another sale on and they were full of rubbish and secondly the sizing on clothing seems to be extremely variable wherever you shop.
I tried on a number of items ranging from a size 14 to a size 18.
i feel totally crap now as i am not excessively over weight ( 12 stone 5 ft 8) and nothing seemed to fit.
Jeans for example in river island the size 18 were too small and then in New look size 14 too big on my waist.
So far as tops goes, anything which has a sniff of designer about it, Large equals size 10
Primark was equally as bad i tried on pair of combats, the same style and size as the one i was wearing and i couldnt even get them over my hips.
WHats going on, am i just a odd shape, an in between size or just having a bad night.
So all i spent was my train fair to get into town and came home feeling crap.
R
X
Answers:
I completely sympathise. I am similar proportions to you, and yesterday I bought clothes from size 12 to size 16. And suddenly I'm a size 8 in shoes - I've always been a 6.5 to 7.
I don't think you should let it affect your self esteem though. I used to let it - but I just think bugger it, if I look good I look good, it doesn't matter what it says on the label. I am looking a bit slack at the moment though, I haven't been so well recently but hopefully next week I'll start going swimming again to tone up a bit.
Answers:
There was something in the news the other week about clothes sizes being based on outdated notions of what women look like and don't fit the average British woman.
I bought 3 tops in 3 different sizes in one shop! And I can't get H&M dresses to fit as they're usually too small on the chest and if I get a size up its baggy under the arms and around the waist!
Answers:
I currently live in Spain where the clothes are so tiiiiiny! In the UK I would be a 10/12. I was trying on trousers the other day and at a size 42 they were too small. The sales assistant unhelpfully told me that was the biggest size and that I should lose weight!
I don't feel so big that I should be denied access to fashion and nobody should anyway. Some of the clothes that I pick up and look at are size 34 and they are so small that even if I starved for the next six months, which I am not about to do, I would never fit into them.
I see plenty of size 16s and full figured women going around and I wonder what they do for clothes as the high fashion stores just don't cater for their sizes.
I think that although they might get some sizes wrong, the UK are still more realistic in their sizes than out here.
Answers:
My Mum lives in Spain and has the same problem, she has to travel to Murcia and goes to El Corte Ingles but it's pricey.
She was saying that if someone were to open an Evans type store in their town it would make a mint.....business idea perhaps?
As for sizing in this country - pah! I just live with the fact that in H&M I'm a size bigger than normal, never go into River Island and cut the labels out if they say anything outrageous. :p