Vanity sizing needs to be stopped

I’m really jealous when people say this. It’s easily 2 for me. I think it’s because I’m tall/large frame in the first place.

For me, it's about 1 stone for 1 size.

It’s so annoying. Why can’t we have clothes sizes like men’s. They get to choose waist and length on trousers, not an arbitrary number made up by someone but different in every brand.

We should be able to choose boob, waist, hip size and leg length.

I also think people wear clothes differently.

I watched a tik tok where a woman was trying on marks and Spencer clothes. My initial reaction was everything was too tight on her - but she thought they were perfect (she did look fabulous in fairness!). No one in the comments thought she was wearing clothes a size too small. So it’s me!

I recently tried on trousers - three sizes. All arguably ‘fit’ me but I preferred the look of the middle one. This lady would have picked the tighter trousers and some people go more baggy. so three different sizes, same body.

Look at some of the comments. I’m neither responding mindlessly nor jumping to conclusions.

Yes this. I think most people posting threads like this and using certain language as seen on posts on this thread and other have suffered disordered eating and body issues. Advanced search usually shows it if they haven’t name changed.

Some shops are notorious for generous sizing - Olly B is one of them!

No, I’m go8ng from experience of this type of thread. I accept that @SemperIdem didn't intend it but worded it badly lots of posters joining have supported my previous observations that this is a way to criticise those over a size 6 for being fat and deluded.

You are reading into that it’s “fat bashing” when there was zero intention of that. You could actually go do some work to counteract prejudices instead of mindlessly jumping to conclusions.

That sounds about right. A size for me (significant recent weight loss) corresponds to 2 stone.

You saying about how you were a size 10 as a 5 ft 6 in 8 stone teenager made me think about how sizes have got gradually bigger over the last 40 odd years. When I was 18,I was 5 ft 6 in,weighed 9 stone and a size 12 fitted me perfectly. A size 10 wouldn't go anywhere near me,yet a size 14 swamped me. I'm now 13 and a half stone, and a size 16 fits me perfectly (most of the time!). I find it hard to believe I'm only 2 sizes bigger at 4 and a half stone heavier! I think today's size 16s are more like what an 18 was back in 1981.

I can object to fat bashing without being insecure. I object to lots of different prejudices.
Several posters on here have said sizes are consistent over the years, though not between shops. You seemed to be saying they were consistently bigger.

I've never had an issue with sizing. I do wonder if people have issues due to the fit. When I was pregnant, and also post birth, I still fit in to some old size 8 clothes. I was no where near a size 8, it's just that some clothes are a loose fit or stretchy so I could still pull it off.
I'm now a size 12, I always order a 12 and it's always a comfortable fit. I can fit into some 10s as I've tried them when there has been no size 12 in what I want but I know that's not my actual size, it's just that the style allows it if its stretchy or loose fitting.

Generally everyone in the UK/The west is getting fatter, so I guess this is is sizing inflation, much like grade inflation in education over time.

That’s ironic you mention jeans being large from pull and bear. I ordered two pairs of jeans from asos recently, both the same size. One was pull and bear. I could hardly get them past my knees. The other were asos and they literally were so big they were falling off me.

My point was clearly that it used to be a consistent size and now it’s not. Also not as simple as just buying a 6 since most clothes companies don’t stock that size. If you’re not insecure then why do you feel the need to jump on a post talking nonsense about “thick fatties” being blamed?

I’m not insecure thanks. You didn’t moan about inconsistency though. ‘Most’ clothes requiring a 6 is something else.

It’s moaning about inconsistency in sizing nothing to do with people’s weight. Don’t project your insecurities onto everything.

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fair enough @SemperIdem

Perhaps it’s in the kids section? Or is she buying homeware?
In all seriousness, I haven’t shopped in Next for quite some years so it may have changed. I don’t intend to shop there because I don’t like the clothes.

and there it is, as if by magic

I'm one of those women! I'm 5ft 3 and have a bmi of around 21 yet Matalan size 8s are too big around the body. I do have a small frame though (need a 30 in bras to fit my rib cage properly). Some people are just built smaller structurally. I'm not complaining though, i do well in sales in most places as there are often lots of size 6s left!

In which case your thread title was wrong. References to vanity sizing are always a criticism of those awful fat people who want to pretend they are still a 12