Have you ever gone to a store and found out that you fit into size 6 pants, only to find out that you fit into size 10 at the next store?It is so frustrating! Clothing makers have caught on to our (well, mine at least) weakness: Clothing makes us feel good about ourselves. So they have started vanity sizing clothing (Link), which means cutting clothes bigger but sizing them smaller as form of flattery to apparel consumers.
To this I say, thanks but no thanks! I can handle my self and shopping can be quite the emotional roller coaster as it is that I don't need the sizing game added to it at all. I would love to know what size I am once and for all, and then be able to go into a store and pick the size knowing it will actually fit. Seriously, there needs to be some kind of thing. Don't even get me started with online shopping. I would love to buy more clothes online, but I have no idea what size is going to fit me, especially if I want to try a new brand.
What's worse? I can go to the super chic boutique and feel like a supermodel yet I have to pay much more as apparently flattery does not come cheap - The smaller the size says, the more expensive the jeans.
6 comments:
Hiya, don't be fooled! They are trying to make you feel better....they are trying to make you feel worse!
My dad was a garment contractor.He has a room full of patterns, and one day he showed me some size 6 pants from 1983. They were the same size 10! So a woman who wore a 6 in the 80s and hasn't really gained a pound, thinks she's gained weight when she can only fit a 10, and then what happens? She obsesses, she gets depressed, she diets. It's a vicious mind-screw the fashion industry does on us!
Oh, and I've always thought women's clothes should be sized like mens...with actual measurements in inches! How great would be to buy a shirt that actually fit BOTH my small waist and full bust line!
But then, my tailor would be out of a job...;-)
I hate this, in one store your size in another your different size. Usually the more expensive the clothes the smaller you are so you feel good and will spend the money. My motto FORGET SIZE, BUT WHAT FITS AND LOOKS GOOD, NO ONE IS GOING TO LOOK INSIDE YOUR CLOTHES TO SEE WHAT SIZE YOU HAVE ON. f**k the fashion industry
I know exactly what you mean!!! But I must say I do tend to shop where I wear a smaller size. I fell into the trap...I wish they would do it in inches like guys...then I could shop online and from catalogs...
Sizing in this country is so messed up. They need to just establish a commn sizing practice of doing waist and hip measurments. It would make life easier.
I agrre with all, but my size is still the same 4...LOL!
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