To think clothes sizes have got bigger? And if they have, its doing no one any favours?

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I swear clothes sizes have got bigger. For example a size 14 today was a 16 10-15 years ago?

Ive had to change my diet dramatically recently which has resulted in weight loss. Im the same weight I was 10 years ago but Im buying a size that no way was I buying 10 years ago. A sizd I wore when I was 13-14 and no way on earth am I that skinny. Literally no possible way.

Its not the first time this theory has come up.

I know a lot of women dont have scales and just go by the way their clothes fit which is great, unless they're making sizes bigger!

And if they make them bigger in 10 more years where does it end?

Of course all clothes shop differ (some a lot!) but generally speaking.

I agree with you. I've weighed pretty much this weight all my adult life. Up until recently I reliably wore the same size but have had to go down a size in the last 5 or so years.

I'm a bit actually on one hand it would cost them more so I'd say no. On the other people would much rather be a size smaller so would maybe buy more from a shop that tells them they are a ten

Could not agree more! I am 5ft 8 and when I got married I weighed 9st 7.
That was 11 years ago and my
Wedding dress was a size 14. ! ! I now weigh 10 st
7 and fit into a size 10 boden! Hello!

I thought they had got smaller ,or it could be that I've got fatter

Totally agree. I've been a 20-22 for years and my weight has definitely gone up in that time, by a good few stones.

Yes loads bigger. The only reason they need size 6 these days.

My Mum had a size 14 skirt from m&s about 20yrs ago in her wardrobe, and as a current 8-10 it was a bit tight on me.

yep i think they have, definitely.

as a tiny, stick - thin, straight up and down, no bum, no boobs, 16 year old 15 years ago, i was a size ten in topshop

now i am still slim but curvy, big boobs, biggish arse, so i reckon in "old" sizing (ie 10 years ago plus) i would be a 10 - 12...but i am now a size 6, supposedly, and i bought some skinny jeans from asda last week in a six and they are loose.

Oh dear! and there I was thinking I was a genuine size 14!

Agree. I used to be a size 8 when I had a 22 inch waist. Now my dd is a size 6 or 8 with a 25 inch waist.
It used to be really difficult to get size 8, usually the smallest size was a 10.

Definitely, I am now about 1 stone more than I waspre kids and pre giving up smoling. I was then a 10. Now I can still wear some tens. Tried on a vintage 12 and could not even do it up! Not doing anyone any favours as we can kid ourselves that we are only a 10 or only a twelve when in fact we are prob

It's known as vanity sizing , for obvious reasons.

I don't agree. I think it's down to changing where you shop as you get older.

Shops aimed at teenagers like Miss Selfridge, TopShop, H&M, the sizes are all titchy - I have to wear size 16 jeans from H&M and there is no way I'm a 16. In grownup shops like M&S, Boden, John Lewis etc I'm between a 12 and a 14.

It's well known that different shops cut for different body shapes, and noone's body shape is the same as when they were a teenager, even if they still weigh the same.

Absolutely. I remember my Granny's wardrobe packed with beautiful clothes in a 12, that would barely fit over my thighs. Vanity sizing does no-one any favours. I am tall and approx a 14, however I can fit in a 10 in some shops...I used to be a 6 to 8, I know the difference. I know I am a 14, that doesn't change!

But I am comparing when I was a teenager 35 years ago to my teenage dd now. The clothes sizes now are most defiantly 2 or 3 inches bigger.

plus if you happen to at the smaller end (due to height) it is difficult to get clothes in the more regular cheap shops

Think you're probably right - don't they always say Marilyn Monroe was a 16? I'm not a 16 but I look nothing like Marilyn sadly!

Having lost 3 stones I now buy size 12 clothes.
I'm sure they would have been a 14 when I was this weight 30 years ago!
Still it is nice and rewarding to not look fat in my clothes these days.

Yes, they have got bigger.

Apparently it's to persuade UK women - who've also got bigger - that they're really quite slim and therefore should be rewarding themselves by buying more clothes.

And it works. Apparently.

I can prove it.

I have a PE skirt I wore at school in 1977. It is a size 14. It is so tiny that my size 8 friend found it snug when she tried it on recently.

That's not age 14 is it?

Definitely! I now fit size 10 trousers which is ridiculous-I am larger than I was in my early 20's and there was no way that I ever wore size 10!

absolutely, I have a really old H&M suit that claims to be size 40EUR - it's the same size as their 36 nowadays.

We are all getting taller and heavier-set, and I think sizes started to get bigger in earnest during the 1990s. Before then, a 1940s size 12 was pretty similar to a 50s, 60s, and early 70s, maybe with slight variations, but from then on it has gradually increased to be a totally different measurement. Having said that, I have a vintage Laura Ashley party dress c1973 and size 10 which is tiny (probably a size zero today) and an Aquascutum 1940s tweed skirt size 12 which falls off me, and I am a 10 by today's standards.

Retailers do not want to piss-off their clientele, so label to flatter.

But bear in mind also that your proportions and fat-distribution are drastically altered by childbirth.