To give M&S the award for the worst case of vanity sizing on the highstreet?!

[ChocolateSantaisthebestkind]

Ordered some clothes for DH's GM, who is in her 90's and slim, but does not like to feel waistbands etc. so DH's Mum (GM lives with DH's parents) asked me to order her size 14 in everything (nightwear, elasticated trousers, cardigans). Anyway, they arrive and DMIL calls me to say can I reorder it all again in a size 10, as what has arrived in size 14, comfortably fits DMIL, who is definitely an 18 in M&S and has 'got a bit spare from Christmas' (her words not mine, and haven't we all!) GMIL usually takes a 14 in other shops and previously in M&S and is not overly skinny, but slim, with an 'overhang' from abdo surgery in her 30's.

AIBU to think that this is ridiculous?

@Changi

I find their scarves fit quite well.

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I loathe the term vanity sizing. Why can’t you just say inconsistent sizing (which is what it is)? Why does everything have to revolve around the value of women being a small dress size?
It is vanity sizing. They literally do it so that women feel better about themselves as they are apparently too thick to know they are a much bigger size in reality.

Well its just as annoying for people who need bigger sizes to not know what size they are in shops either.

Many people who are teeny tiny are unhealthy.

Nobody who fits comfortable into an adult size from M&S is "teeny tiny". The very smallest adult size M&S do is a perfectly normal ordinary size, not "teeny tiny" by any stretch of the imagination. There are some shops that do really small clothes, I can't imagine anyone except skinny teenagers fitting in them, but M&S certainly is not one of them.

The fixation and vitriol MN has with any woman who weighs less than about 130lbs, and the insistence that if you're smaller than a size 10 you're "teeny tiny" is absurd. I'm a size 6 (a proper size 6, i.e. designer size 6 - oh and I was a size 10 in the early 90s and still have shirts from then that fit, yet I'm suddenly two sizes smaller) and am not remotely skinny, just somewhat petite. I have wobbly thighs and a bit of a belly. I'm not fat but no one would call be teeny tiny, scrawny, or any of the other insults that are constantly chucked around for women with a BMI under 25.