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1950's sizes compared to 2010 sizes.

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  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,162 Forumite
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    sofababe wrote: »
    I was thinking about this today. I was wearing a size 12/14 in 1987 when I was 16 and I weighed 8st (a BMI of 17:eek:)
    Today I wear a 14 and am nearer 13st. My clothes back then fitted so have sizes got bigger in the last 23 years? They must have.


    Def they have. I wore an 8 in the 90s (they didn't do 6s then) & I was a 24 inch waist (I might have been 22 can't remember, a tailor (uniform fitting) did remark on how tiny it was).

    Now 8s are like 12s were then.

    I miss my skinny underweight figure:(
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