To ask what your bust, waist and hip measurements are

[Mymygivemeafry]

So I posted a thread on height and weight the other day and the most interesting finding was that weights look totally different on different people (even if same height).

So if you want to, please post your height, weight and stats. I just find these threads fascinating!

I’m 5ft 4, 8 stone 7lb and bust 33, waist 26.5, hips 35

Dress size 8-10 (sometimes M&S 6s)

Oh, weight 10st6lbs.

brazen pretty sure if I prowl back through this thread I can find posts with bmis that are unhealthy at the other end of the scale. But it wouldn’t be either acceptable or constructive to randomly quote their stats, call them overweight, tell them to start eating less and diagnose them with a mental health condition. It would just be an excuse to be insulting, not a concern for their health.

christee could be ill, or a cancer patient, or recovering any physical illness. Or she might have lost weight as the result of a mental illness that isn’t an eating disorder.

Equally she could just be someone with the petite small boned build more common with very short people, of a body type that is naturally thin and the picture of health.

Either way your comments aren’t in anyway constructive, just offensive. And telling you haven’t done the same to anyone with large measurements. So yes, skinny bashing.

And fyi, anorexia isn’t a bmi. The physical issues of low body weight stem from not eating enough to maintain healthy functions, not because you only eat enough to maintain health and not extra to store surplus fat. Hence why pro ballet dancers and jockeys often have very low bmis but are ridiculously fit, but someone not eating enough for whatever reason could end up needing treatment with a healthy or even high bmi.

I have no idea of all my measurements.

I know that I'm;

5ft nothing
6 stone 6

and that I have a 23inch waist.
Clothes size 00, 0 or 4.

My BMI has me at 17.6 and on the bottom of the underweight scale - which is total bollocks.

I am healthy, happy and perfectly in proportion for my body.
Will await someone who knows my body better than me to berate me for being unhealthily thin though...

Ok I've just checked and my jeans are a size 2, 22inch waist - which makes my hips 31 inches.

I don't have a tape measure but that's what the size guide is telling me.

TrainspottingWelsh

Ignore my last post, my laptop decided to have a fit to itself!

TrainspottingWelsh
I could have worded my initial post better, but is it really ok to let someone believe that being a dangerously low a weight is ok?
People who are overweight know there is a problem and the issues that will arise from their weight are over the long-term, not an immediate risk to their health in the same way being underweight is.

I've seen someone go through an eating disorder and watching her deteriorate was incredibly distressing. I did not, however, say that christee had an eating disorder. I said she either has an eating disorder that needs addressing or she isn't eating enough for her activity levels, because a BMI of 15 is dangerously low.

If Christee does have a physical health condition causing her low weight, then I absolutely apologise. But she posted:

5ft9, 32, 26 waist. 😊 x
7stone 4 x

which lead me to believe she was quite chuffed with her measurements and weight. Hence my reply that it is not safe to be that weight/size at that height.

@SeaSaltandLime

There's a big difference between a BMI of 15 and a BMI of 17.6. You are only just underweight and your BMI can quite easily be explained by small bone structure.

I'm not on a skinny-bashing crusade here ffs.

I'm glad for your honesty, BrazenH.

@Brazenhussy0 That wasn't aimed at you at all. I apologise if it came off that way.

I was not at all chuffed. I put the smiley face to be friendly!

brazen we obviously think differently, I don’t think people should automatically be ashamed of their stats. Even if you know from a medical viewpoint they need to change I don’t think anyone should be embarrassed by their size.

In the 1860's I would have been freakishly big.

I think the 1860s would have suited my figure perfectly ☺️☺️☺️

I'm 5'6", 36 - 27.5 - 37. Size 12 in most things. Weigh 10 stone 3lb

I would just like to say thank you to the people that saw my point of view about thin shaming. I wasnt trying to make out I was chuffed. I just put the smiley face in a friendly way. Thin shaming people can be just as hurtful as the other end of the spectrum. I'm not happy with how little I am, but unfortunately i cannot change who i am. I didnt want any grief for it. I expected this to be a friendly thread where we all appreciated each other for sharing x

Seriously how can you have a 35" bust and be in a size 8???

I think my bust is 35" and 90% of my clothes are size 6.

I can see where you are coming from though. The New Look online size calculator reckons I should be a size 12. I bought a top and a skirt in there on Sunday. Both size 6. Both fit perfectly.

@Sproink - clothes sizes can be so weird!! In H&M and topshop I’m a 14!!! Yet in M&S the size 6 is too big at the bust and hips! And I’m 5ft4 8 1/2 stone and 33-26-35!!

35" bust would have been between 14 and 16 in 1980.

Well yes but if you buy a size 16 top to fit your boobs, won't it be baggy everywhere else if you have a slim waist? People's dimensions don't necessarily correlate into standard sizes perfectly - what do you do if you have massive arse/thighs, but 27 inch waist, is everything baggy because you have to buy a bigger size to get over your bum?

Well yes but if you buy a size 16 top to fit your boobs, won't it be baggy everywhere else if you have a slim waist?

I have a very slim waist so I quite often have take a couple of inches out of each side of a top or dress. Some clothes lend themselves better to alterations than others though. I'm also careful with my style choices because some styles can cope with a bigger bust and some definitely can't.

Yes it will be baggy I find this a lot. However it was that the rest of the measurements seemed in proportion, that was my point, they are broadly the same as mine and I am now getting into a 10 at a 35" bust and I think that's ridiculous vanity sizing as I am old and remember when there was nothing smaller than a size 10 which was for 32-22-32 people. 12 was 34-24-34 and so on, add 2" for each size as you go up. All this "Marilyn Monroe was a size 16" stuff . . . a) that's an American size 16 which equates to our 14 and b) that would have been a 1950s size 14 which would have been measurements of 36-26-36. According to some posters on here she could have got into an M&S size 6 ! Which, let me be honest with you, is exactly what I am going to have a crack at, at the first opportunity.

When they introduced size 8 in 1983 or so I was 6st 13 and a lot of the size 8s were too small for me. I shall be chuffed to bits if I can get into a 6 now at a stone and a half bigger than that!

I don't bother with M&S. Nothing in there fits me. Their sixes are probably a ten anywhere else

My boob measurement is 42" with a rib cage of 31" - the bra I wear is a 32HH.

The issue being if you go by measurements alone, I would be a 16/18 or bigger, I am actually a 12. If I go to anything bigger the body is too big, and the arms are too long. I have to wear stretchy tops/dresses, or dresses with stretchy panels, thank you FatFace.

5’7. 36, 25, 40.
Not sure how much I weigh as I don’t weigh myself.

5'7"
34 (32B) 28 39
I wish I was in proportion

@Christieee I know that. I saw your emoji as an blushing smile.
Not to sound like a teen but ignore the haters 🤣

@EmeraldShamrock Always! 😊