grrr...at clothes sizes!!

Frogletina

charlie792 wrote: »

Oh and something else that annoys me is that some shops only seem to stock 'regular' length trousers/jeans - now Im not exactly short, Im 5ft 6 and yet 'regular' length trousers are about 3 inches too long!

Imagine me then at 5ft! Even short lengths seem to cater for those at least 5ft 3in. Leggings are a goodsend, I wear them with mini skirts.

Frogletina

Malory

I hate this, too.

It has nothing to do with gaining or losing weight and clothes stretching.

It's about there being no standard for women's clothing sizes. I have clothes that fit me now in sizes 6, 8 and 10. (The 6s are Next trousers, but my Next tops are an 8 - even though I am smaller on top than on the bottom.). They all fit me now, so it's not that I've gone from a 6 to an 8 or an 8 to a 10.

When I go to a shop to buy clothes, I have to take 2 of everything into the fitting room. (I know I can ask the shop assistant to get me another size of something, but I don't want to bother her by asking her to do this for every item I want to try on, and sometimes I have to try on the two different sizes more than once just to be sure.)

I have tried on similar items from the same store that were next to each other in the shop and in one item I was one size and in the other one I was a different size.

I could never order clothing online unless I had tried on that exact same brand in the shop and already knew my size. There is too much of a risk that it wouldn't fit and I can't be bothered to go to the post office to return it.

On the other hand, if DH wants a pair of trousers, he goes to the shop, grabs a pair of trousers with his waist size, takes it home without trying it on, and it fits :mad:

I don't have an issue with my body image and I don't care what the size is on the label. I just want to go into the shop knowing what size I wear, grab something in my size, pay for the item and then leave.

Frogletina

Malory wrote: »

On the other hand, if DH wants a pair of trousers, he goes to the shop, grabs a pair of trousers with his waist size, takes it home without trying it on, and it fits :mad:

Why is it that men's trousers always show the proper lengths and women's don't. My partner was 6ft and could buy 29" length trousers in M & S, he never had a problem, they were always the right length. I'm 5ft and really need a 27" but often the short sizes there are anything up to 30", and I was told at one time that they were allowed to be made with a tolerance of up to 2". What is that all about!

trinity_enigma

MrsManda wrote: »

I get this problem but it's not really a sizing fault. Jeans are sized by waist size and length, not by the width of the trouser legs which is why there are different styles.

I was referring to the waist of the trousers not getting very far up my legs. But even if I wasn't, surely they have a standard model that says size 10- leg sizes need to be x and size 16 they need to be y otherwise every single pair of trousers would be different.

And while we're on the matter of sizing I'm fed up of shops thinking that there are no people who are shorter that 5' 3'' or whatever and that feet don't come smaller than a size 4.

The_One_Who

trinity_enigma wrote: »

And while we're on the matter of sizing I'm fed up of shops thinking that there are no people who are shorter that 5' 3'' or whatever and that feet don't come smaller than a size 4.

In my experience, 'petite' is classed as shorter than 5'3". So for those of us who are exactly that have to live with petite being slightly too short and regular being slightly too long.

trinity_enigma

The_One_Who wrote: »

In my experience, 'petite' is classed as shorter than 5'3". So for those of us who are exactly that have to live with petite being slightly too short and regular being slightly too long.

I'm a little under 5' so often the petite range is still too long and most of the shops near me don't even have a petite range! DPs does and Next has about 3 items and that's me done. And it's not only problems with trousers, there's also the problem of the shoulder seams on tops being half way down my arms. I wish I could afford to have clothes made just for me- not only would they fit but they'd be a decent quality too :T

The_One_Who

trinity_enigma wrote: »

I'm a little under 5' so often the petite range is still too long and most of the shops near me don't even have a petite range! DPs does and Next has about 3 items and that's me done. And it's not only problems with trousers, there's also the problem of the shoulder seams on tops being half way down my arms. I wish I could afford to have clothes made just for me- not only would they fit but they'd be a decent quality too :T

Have you considered making your own? Or altering clothes you buy?

nellytheelephant

I wanted a dress in Forever 21, tried a small which was slightly too small, so tried a medium which was massively too small!! Ended up taking the same dress in the same size (6 smalls!!) to the fitting room, as I was determined one would fit! Finally got a small to fit perfectly, after having some that even just fell down!

I always find Next come up quite small, as do Top Shop. River Island and New Look tend to be about right, even if New Look is sometimes a little big.

PPtobe

I once bought 2 sports tops (same size) from Sports Direct - exactly the same, just different colours! One fit fine and the other was far too small - not even remotely the same size! Made me panic as to how much weight I had suddenly appeared to put on when I tried the small one first!!!

Jeff_Bridges_hair

You should feel more sorry for the poor kids who seem to like buying jeans to big for them and end up walking funny/pulling them up every 5 mins