Seems like size 10 these days is considered 'large'?

[Echobelly]

Caveat: Yes, I know actual clothes sizes are all over the place and not necessarily a guide to weight/shape.

I'm in my mid 40s and I'd swear when I was a kid, 10 was considered 'slim', yet it often seems to be talked about now as though it's the porky side.

I don't think that all that many women naturally fall into being a size 8 - I'd consider 10 a normal 'slim' size, I don't think anyone who is a size 10 would ever be medically overweight, even really short women like me.

Older people like me - do you think attitudes have changed? Younger women - have you grown up with 10 talked about as though it was an undesirable size to be?

Thing is though almost everybody at size 16 is big. They may be average UK size but UK people are too big.

But why change what a size 10 or 12 or 14 is? Just add different numbers to reflect the other sizes.

I’m usually the smallest woman, or one of the smallest, in a workplace or given group. This gets commented on - Im usually a 6-8 so that is still ‘functionally’ slim. I’m average height and what makes the real difference is I have a small frame - I can fit into age 12 kids clothes over the hips (I literally have the hips of a pre- pubescent girl which doesn’t make me feel super sexy if I think about it 😂) and that reads as ‘small’ even though I have a bit of squish. I’m lucky that I don’t feel caught up in dress size angst because I am always on the acceptably small size but it’s the size of my frame that achieves that which is something I have no control over. Some people will have the opposite in that they will have a larger frame that they can’t do anything about.

there are people I know who are probably less squishy than me over all but they are also just physically bigger so they don’t seem ‘small’ in the way that I do and people don’t comment on it like they do to me!

The average female BMI in France is 24.6

And you think that represents a demographic where very few people are over a size 10?

If anything it proves that size 10 is smaller than the average. Most women would be at least a 12 at that BMI.

I disagree hugely that a '10 years ago 16' is a 10 today. Mostly because I still own size 16 clothes from 10 years ago, that fit me, and I am a size 18-20 these days, not for lack of trying to shrink, but apparently I can't lose weight even if I starve so that's fun. I cannot fit into today's size 10 clothes, the concept is laughable.

Size 10 is not plump or, as they seem to call it these days 'mid-size.' It's just completely normal, IMO.

The US has a different sizing system so what used to be a UK 10 was a US 6. Don’t know if their sizing has changed similar to the UK but there’s also a sizeable portion of ethnic backgrounds which are smaller sizes

Height and frame dependent totally.

im 5’3 and a small frame never been bigger than a large 10 and I’ve be relentlessly bullied about my weight my entire life. Since my 20s I’ve never been larger than an 8/10 (shop dependent) and A LOT of people in different walks of life have pointed out my weight/ size.

I never said it wasn't, but claiming not to know anyone above a 10 is frankly ridiculous. That poster is trying to make out like a perfectly healthy size is fat.

I don't think a 10 is large but websites such as Vinted class a 12 as a large which isn't nice to read lol

If you are happy being larger, just be satisfied with that, and stop insulting people who are able to walk past a cake shop.

Really @JosephineGH

That's completely out of order.

If you are happy being larger, just be satisfied with that, and stop insulting people who are able to walk past a cake shop.

ignore the troll people!

In the seventies and eighties I was a size ten. 2 kids, the menopause and about 10/15 lbs heavier, I’m a size eight, apart from Zara where I’m anything from a six to a twelve.

Size 8-10 in ASOS, topshop, new look. XS in Nike/Ryderwear and H&M. I have some pieces from my late teens/early 20’s I still wear from Topshop and Miss Selfridge all size 12 from 2005-2007.

Today's size 10 was a 14 in the seventies.

Crikey that really is a change. To me a 10 will always seem like the perfect size as that’s what I grew up with. God knows what I am now as I rarely buy new clothes but probably a 14 minimum.

Who said I'm large? Why would you make that assumption?

I am a size 10, though to you that makes me a heifer.

I find your posts really unpleasant, claiming that perfectly normal and healthy sized women are fat.

why are you calling everyone who disagrees fat?

based on me being happy in my size

someone is happy with themselves doesn't tend to be so bitter...

This.

@JosephineGH

I think it is fair enough, if you are of a particular background and social circle, to view sizes differently to the wider population.

God knows there are enough threads on here about how wealthy women all seem to be very slim, under size 10 etc!

I am not attacking your size, I'm attacking your horrible attitude towards other women.

You resort to insulting me and calling me fat when you know nothing about me.