I’m an intelligent women with a stupid question....

[Runway]

But I just can’t find the answer to it!!! When I am buying my daughter’s clothes and age 6 says 116cm.....is that from 116cm or up to 116cm?

I promise I have tried to find the answer online but it’s conflicting....

That M&S label is funny. We don’t use pounds at all in Aus or NZ (except if a kind midwife translates birthweight into lb for you to tell an older relative), and 00000 would be for quite a premature baby, not full term newborn (000).

Centilong?! 😂😂😂
Engineer here, centimetre works just fine.

Abbreviation for centilitre is cl. I'm not trying to work out DS's volume in the middle of Asda.

Centilong was a size system invented to be based on cm - I agree it’s confusing when cl also means centilitre but it was originally centilong, promise. To separate the sizes from the length of the person I suppose maybe they originally thought people would think the actual garment was 120 cm or whatever. Just a fun fact thrown out in all haste I remember sizes being in centilong when I was little but it was a long time ago (I’m Swedish btw).

Sorry I meant to put a . My post sounds really snotty without it!

Haha - fair enough!

Tropical exactly!

OP you didn't say 6-7, you said age 6. Which, again, if you follow the rule of "a single number is up to" is 5-6.

@Runway

But I just can’t find the answer to it!!! When I am buying my daughter’s clothes and age 6 says 116cm.....is that from 116cm or up to 116cm?

I promise I have tried to find the answer online but it’s conflicting....

To fit an ‘average’ 6 year old, and in the ‘average proportions’ of someone in the region of / up to 116cm tall

If she has long or short legs then that could affect the proportion when considering if you are buying a top, trousers, skirt - her legs won’t affect her top but she could need a slightly shorter persons top if she has long legs

To further confuse things I’ve just looked at her school uniform from George and it’s 6-7 which it states is 116cm-122cm. So this is clearly from not up to.

This is my confusion. There doesn’t seem to be any one way that the shops do it!

*To further confuse things I’ve just looked at her school uniform from George and it’s 6-7 which it states is 116cm-122cm. So this is clearly from not up to.

This is my confusion. There doesn’t seem to be any one way that the shops do it!*

That's just the same way as all the others isn't it?

Thats the same as all the others...
7 is equal to 122 is equal to 6-7?

Not sure how else to explain it...

@Runway

To further confuse things I’ve just looked at her school uniform from George and it’s 6-7 which it states is 116cm-122cm. So this is clearly from not up to.

This is my confusion. There doesn’t seem to be any one way that the shops do it!

It's means from the max height for age 6 (116cm) up to the max height for age 7 (122cm). It would be an age 7 if not doing dual sizes.

To go with centilong, do we have centiwide as well?

@mustardrose
Don't know about that, but we do have centipede, which is how long one seems to spend in a toilet doing, what should be, a very simple thing.

@WhatsGoingOnHereThen @dementedpixie
These examples mean age 6 is from 116. And up to 122. Everyone above was saying age 6 is up to 116.

@TropicalFairyCake same. You’re then saying size 7 is from 122 not up to 122. This is different to what everyone is saying up these

No they don't
They mean age 7 is up to 122
And @TropicalFairyCake is agreeing with that
Maybe just agree to disagree

No, age 6 is up to 116.
Age 7 is up to 122.

Age 6-7 is 116-122.

I really don't see where you're seeing a difference!

Who cares that OP made a spelling mistake. Do you have to have perfect spelling to be intelligent??!

@babycorn1

I have to confess that I am similarly confused, for example, when something is age 3, does that mean up to 3? Or when they are 3?

Yes! For the avrage centile chart. Through buying clothes you will work out which part if the chart your child falls into. Some kids were size bigger and some one size smaller. With some kids they are tall and skinny which means the trousers with adjustable waist to help with this.

[quote Runway]@BertieBotts but that would mean 6-7 is 116-122. And everyone here is saying it means 6-7,6 is up to 116cm

@Bluntness100 it’s not really as there’s no standard measurement sizing for adult clothes whereas these are definitive centimetres[/quote]
Tall 6 and short 7.. less likely to be worn by tall 5 and short 8.

It's like shoes, right? That size, or very close to it.

@Runway.... no. Im saying same as everyone else.

7 is same as 6-7 is same as up to 122....

A single digit age is the same as up to that age.

So 7 is same as 6-7
8 is same as 7-8

Another way of saying upto.

Im not sure if you're now genuinely confused or not.

Ok. I get the 6-7 bit. What I struggle with is this means if clothes say age 6, that doesn’t mean they are suitable for a child who is, say, 6.5 years old (as this would be between 116-122) but instead means they are for children up to 6 years old (116cm). If we were going by average heights of course.

I just always assumed age 6 would fit an average 6 year old but it doesn’t it seems!

@TropicalFairyCake

A single digit age is the same as up to that age.

So 7 is same as 6-7
8 is same as 7-8

Another way of saying upto.

Im not sure if you're now genuinely confused or not.

Half sizes. Like 4.5 or 5.5 shoes.

If you look at the RCHCP growth charts, an average (50th centile) girl on her 6th birthday is 115cm tall. Boy 116cm tall.

7th birthday 50th centile girl is 121cm tall and boy 122cm tall.

So age 6-7 being 116-122 (or 122) fits with these. Although only if you're exactly 50th centile.

I think single ages being the end of a range rather than the start is the confusing part. Because when you're 6 years 11 months old, you don't say "I'm 7" you say "I'm 6" even though you're closer to 7. We tend to use the lower age for the entire year.