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Bloody clothes sizes
Women's clothes sizes make no bloody sense, even when you look at them in inches.
There's a top I want to buy, which the designer-maker says is:
- size 12 bust 36/38" waist 26/28" hips 38/40" ("so quite big")
- size 10 bust 34/36" waist 24/26" hips 36/38"
I just measured myself, and my measurements are 38/30/37. I wouldn't say I'm currently bigger than a "quite big" size 12 (the size 10 trousers I bought in M&S the other week are somewhat worryingly baggy about the waist, although they are casual), but I thought she might be basing the size numbers on an old pattern, so I had a look at the M&S website:
- size 10 = 34/27/37
- size 12 = 36/29/39
- size 14 = 38/31/41
So, do I assume that the designer is lying as much as M&S does, and in the same direction, or that her sizes are accurate...?
Sigh.
There's a top I want to buy, which the designer-maker says is:
- size 12 bust 36/38" waist 26/28" hips 38/40" ("so quite big")
- size 10 bust 34/36" waist 24/26" hips 36/38"
I just measured myself, and my measurements are 38/30/37. I wouldn't say I'm currently bigger than a "quite big" size 12 (the size 10 trousers I bought in M&S the other week are somewhat worryingly baggy about the waist, although they are casual), but I thought she might be basing the size numbers on an old pattern, so I had a look at the M&S website:
- size 10 = 34/27/37
- size 12 = 36/29/39
- size 14 = 38/31/41
So, do I assume that the designer is lying as much as M&S does, and in the same direction, or that her sizes are accurate...?
Sigh.
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Incidentally, this (http://sizes.darkgreener.com/) is a potentially useful tool for clothes shopping – and you can see from it just how arbitrary clothing sizes are and how much they vary!