Variations in Height Weight & Dress Size

[Bunnylady54]

I just read an article about a woman who lost 3st 12llb with Slimming World. She’s 5ft 2” , now weighs 11 stone 2 but reckons she wore a size 10 dress for her 40th. I’m about half an inch taller & maybe just a couple of pounds heavier but there’s no way on earth I’d fit into a size 10! I got down to 9 stone a while back but was still in a 14! I do have broad shoulders & hips but even so, can there really be such a variation in people’s dress sizes?

Because dress sizes aren’t standardised. I have clothes in my wardrobe in 3 different sizes and they all fit.

Thought I’d put this in chat

Not this again no shit Sherlock, people come on different shapes & sizes.

Unless you're buying made to measure tailored clothes then the sizes that some people can get into will vastly differ across the spectrum.

Depends on where you buy the dress, style and shape of dress, and body shape, ie where the fat is distributed. Women tend to vary quite a bit in the last aspect.
More rarely, she might be extremely fit and have a disproportionate amount of muscle, though this is quite hard for women to achieve.

Yes there can. I am very 'densely packed' and weigh over 2 stone more than a friend, but I'm a dress size smaller than her. I carry it evenly everywhere, while she has very thin legs and arms.

If she'd bought the dress in Fat Face, White Stuff etc, then I can well believe it. If it's from Topshop, that would prove more tricky.

People will vary in dress size when they weigh the same because some are more toned than others

Yes
Go to H and M and buy 3 pairs of trousers and 3 dresses. Bet they are at least 3 different sizes

If a person is say, pear shaped, so small upper body and bigger lower body, then she’ll be able to wear a smaller dress than someone who has a large upper body and small lower body, even though theyre the same height and weight. This is because dresses are generally cut to fit a pear shaped body (that being the most common type) and the bottoms of dresses are not generally tight fitting.

Its not unusual for a broad shouldered woman to have to wear a larger size dress, even though she’s slim. Its about frame not weight.

I carry most of my weight on my arse and thighs - which means I can be a 16 in jeans and need a 10 for a skater dress to fit the rest of me.

Tailored things I'm likely to be a 12 unless generous across the shoulders - I then need some darts for it not to hang like a sack below my bust.

Size depends on shop and style.

Any chance 11s2 was her starting weight? And now she is 7s4?

I'm 11st 8, 5ft 8 tall and I vary in size from an 8 to a 14. It's all bollocks and means nothing. If it fits you and you feel good in it, wear it.

My friend is 5ft 6. Her ideal weight is 10st 4 which makes her a size 8 - 10. I'm 5ft. At 10st 4 I have to wear a size 14! We all carry weight differently. A while ago my DH lost 4st and didnt budge on clothing size.

She was 15st & dropped to 11st 2

That’s crazy @mumof1andacat I am 5ft6 and weight 9.7 stone and am a size 12!

At 9st 8lb (my lowest adult weight) I was a size 8 (yes, in topshop . In 2007). Even now that I’m several stone heavier, people never guess my weight correctly and I wear a size 16, sometimes a 14. It’s all about frame and fat distribution and muscle etc etc. We’re all different!

Of course there is, muscle mass makes a big difference as well. Me and my friend are the same height and same size, we swap clothes, including jeans and not just the stretchy one-size-fits-nobody stuff. I lift weights, she does not work out - she's almost 20 pounds lighter.

Of course body shapes are all different. I have a wide frame, so even when very skknny, size 10 was the lowest I could get due to the width of my pelvis and shoulders. Some people are petite or carry weight well etc..

Ive never understood dress sizes

If theyre not standardised then theyre a waste of time. Theyre literally just meaningless numbers. Nothing to stop me making a dress for a 7ft 300lb woman and calling it size 0

If she’s pear shaped then she will be able to fit into a smaller dress, the magazine will have written it in the most flattering way possible as they’re selling a product.

She probably wouldn’t fit into a size 10 pair of jeans and vice versa for someone apple shaped who may but would need a bigger dress.

Not to mention that sizes bar hugely by shop.
Also fitting into a stretchy size 10 doesn’t necessarily mean you are a size 10 IYKWIM.

Muscle mass makes a huge difference, people are always surprised by my weight compared to my small size but it's because I have a decent amount of muscle

I'm 9 stone 4, size 6 sometimes even 4 and 5 foot 5, I've been the same weight at a size 10!

Gone from an 18/20 to a 10/12 on SlimmingWorld in 8 months. I wear mainly joules, Boden, next. Even in same make sizes vary. I have size 10 next jeans that hang off me but need a 12 in another next pair. Some clothes are huge, just had to send a size 8 dress back to hush that looked like a sack on me.

I’m sane weight as sliming world lady but eight inches taller. I can just about fit in a ten in most shops but I’d opt for a twelve if wearing trousers. She may have a very narrow frame or she might be a fairly extreme pair shape. A lot of people are twin completely different sizes top and bottom.

Oh gawd. Shall we all list our heights weights and dress sizes now

Seriously who fuckin cares. Get a better hobby than literal navel gazing.