What size would you guess I am?

[m0therofdragons]

Today I've seen a photo of me and I feel I look much bigger than I thought I was. Dh thinks I look fine. I'm wondering if my brain is just completely unable to identify what is normal anymore.

What dress size (UK) would you think I am and where on the bmi - healthy - overweight or obese?

@ClientQueen - thanks, I’ll give them a go!

I have read the full thread. You have a lovely figure OP and I would have said you were a 12 pear shape with a lovely defined waist.
I am a 10-12 and a completely different body shape to you, I can also look completely different size wise depending on what I'm wearing. Knowing your body shape and dressing in a way that flatters it can make all the difference.

dress sizes are random, women are assumed to be airheaded fools who enjoy shopping and are happy for it to take ages, so there is no consistency.

I've got clothes labelled between 10 and 16 and they all fit.

question cannot be answered. And frankly worrying about the label in your knickers is a playground occupation.

I think you look like a size 12. You have a lovely figure and the dress is beautiful.

Op you have a lovely figure. Ignore some of the ridiculous comments here there's no way you look anything above a 12.

I would hope that the strange angle of the photo is scouring peoples vision but with it being MN I suspect a significant proportion are deliberately saying bigger sizes just to be mean.

14

@Sizedoesntmatter

I would guess you at size 16 on the bottom and 14 on the top.

@Wereeaglesdare you sound very unpleasant and rude. Calling very slim/small chested women 'bags of bones' is no better than fat-shaming.

Shame on you.

By the way, how and why and where are people seeing the OP's second pic?

@faceacroossthepond I’m a size 8...🤷‍♀️

As far as I can make out, the second pic is viewable only on the app. The app is rubbish, though, so most people won't be able to see it.

@Sizedoesntmatter

On this pic you posted last night around 10pm, I have to say you don't look like a size 8.

More like a 14.

I’d say 12 or 14?

You have a lovely figure. Curves where you should have and a lovely flat tummy! 😀

No shit, far. That was her point. Unflattering pics in ill fitting clothes make size unguessable-at.

@faracrossthepond that is my point...And that’s also why I posted the other pics for comparison.

Size 12, and a healthy shape.

Funny how (some) people are so offended when you guess their clothes size as being bigger than they claim it is, but are very happy if you think they are smaller.

Like age. Everyone (over 35 mostly,) is desperate to be thought of as looking much younger than they are, and if they claim they get asked for I.D. to buy alcohol, even though they're 43! And they are soooo chuffed that someone (supposedly) thought they looked waaaaay younger than their years.

Why IS that?

Also - clothes sizing is bullshit anyway. It's a well documented fact that today's size 8-10 was a size 12-14 pre 1990s, and today's size 12-14 was a 16 to 18 then.

I was a size 12 in the late 1980's. My 5 ft 7 inch, slim 20-something daughter tried on an old 'size 12' skirt I found in the loft last week that I used to wear circa 1989, and it only just fit her.

She is a size 8 (in 2020.) Yet my late 1980s size 12 only just fits her.

As I said, sizings are all bullshit anyway.

Also - clothes sizing is bullshit anyway. It's a well documented fact that today's size 8-10 was a size 12-14 pre 1990s, and today's size 12-14 was a 16 to 18 then.

I've heard this before yet I can wear my mum's clothes from the 70s that are size 10 and my size 12s from the 90s still fit like my other size 12s - yes I still have 2 work shirts that are classically cut that I still wear that I bought for my uni interview (should really sort through my clothes!)

Anyway, regardless of size, I just ran 10.5 miles which is the farthest I've ever run. Happy with that achievement.

I meant skirts not shirts

Well yes sizes change but they also vary from store to store, in warehouse I’m a size 6, in most shops I’m a size 8 and there’s a few stores where a 10 has been a better fit!!imo it doesn’t really matter!