AIBU to ask if anyone else has the same experience???

[Northernlassie1974]

www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/woman-vows-boycott-primark-over-24675121.amp
This is lighthearted but I'm genuinely interested to hear anyone else experiences and any recommendations from fellow pear shapers as to the best comfortable, skinny fit jeans/jeggings that don't cost the earth or show your cellulite through them!?!

So, I happened to have gone to Primarni last week and bought three pairs of their jeggings...tenner each..perfect I thought.

I'm currently a size 16 and 5'2" who has put on quite a bit over the last year or so. I've got clothes in a 14 that are hugely snug at the mo. I've been eating healthier and have been working through couch to 5k over the last few weeks.
No, I'm not expecting miracles but definitely can feel the few pounds I've lost, less bloated etc.

Anyway, I wanted some comfy clothes for holiday. Begrudge spending a fortune as genuinely am sorting myself out and plan to lost what I've put on ( I'm 40, need to be healthier in general..want to lost weight but health really is main motivator now!)
Bought 16, for £30 for three pairs I'm happy with that.
They.dont.go.near.me.
Genuinely felt gutted, how could I have gone from 14 is feeling tight to suddenly needing size 20!?!
Happened to see this article yesterday. As much as I'm angry and furious that, if this is true, this must be so damaging to so many people. I'm relatively body confident nowadays...I am what I am and want to lost a bit but more for health than looks...but in my younger years, I'd have been really wounded by this.

Anyway, anyone else found the same thing?
YABU: no, I've got no issue with Primarni sizing
YANBU: YES! I too have experienced small sizing at Primarni.
Also, can any fellow short arse pear shapers recommend comfy, fitted, high waist jeans (to hold in the mum tum) with stretch (as waist:hip ratio is ridiculous) that aren't paper thin to show through your cellulite and dont cost a fortune!?!?!
TIA

I'm mostly a 16 and that woman looks about the same size as me. If you actually go by the listed size guides for shops they are pretty accurate.
I'm sure primark are well bothered by her lack of future custom.

Dorothy perkins Eden jeggings are great. M&S also decent.

That woman is deluding herself if she thinks she's a 10. I'd say a 14, maybe a 16.

I’m a 12-14 and she’s definitely at least my size, if not more. It’s hard to see because we all hold weight differently but I’d say she was 12 at least.

Very old messy room photos!
Both dresses ASOS and bought at the same time
One is a size 14, one is a 24. I mean...

8/10 before kids
12 after
Had to get 16 in the primark Mom jeans 🤷‍♀️

I’ve actually found the opposite at Primark, I’m a straight size ten but have had dresses from there in size 6 with plenty of room.

Everyone knows women’s sizing is nonsense with no standardisation though, I can’t even get a pair of size 16 H&M jeans to fasten while I’m drowning in a size 10 pair at a supermarket. Wear what fits and ignore the label.

And there is absolutely no way that lady is a size 10 in most places. She’s at least a 14, I’d say 16. I’d be surprised if she found size 10s that fit her anywhere, including places like Tesco that are huge.

Primark sizing is all over the place, I'm a size 8/10 and can never buy jeans there, they just don't fit.
I bought 3 pairs of size 8 jeans from Next recently, two pairs fit perfectly but the other pair won't go past my knees

I'm a much larger lady these days & I find sizing hit and miss. I've just bought some beautiful leggings from weird fish. They are super comfy and look more flattering than my primark ones. £15 a pair but the quality is lovely.

I went into primark with dd2 this week.
She is very slim, but tall, about a size 8-10 most places.
their size 8 jeans wouldn't fit a doll!
She did get some lovely jeans, which I think are a primark size 12.

Yes their sizing is tiny.
Who cares? Buy the size that fits.

Oh and given that dd is a size 8-10, I can confidently say, she is half the size of the woman in the video, who is very unlikely to be a size 10.

@Monday26July

And there is absolutely no way that lady is a size 10 in most places. She’s at least a 14, I’d say 16. I’d be surprised if she found size 10s that fit her anywhere, including places like Tesco that are huge.

She's quite pear shaped. I suppose if she wore a size 10 floaty dress, that would fit?

The people who are commenting on the article don't believe she's a 10 either.

Generally a 14-16. I have a pair of Primark jeans which I love and they fit really well but they're an 18.

@NotMyCat

Very old messy room photos! Both dresses ASOS and bought at the same time One is a size 14, one is a 24. I mean...

That is so funny - 14 to 24!

And neither look remotely like a size 24 !

I actually wonder if the Mirror asked this lady’s permission to post her story/pics etc? It looks like she just shared a video on Tiktok…

We know that they often just lift stories from here without permission.

I’ve seen hacks post under Twitter photos asking if they can share photos, been told no but still shared them.

It annoys me when shop sizes are inaccurate.
I lost loads of weight a few years ago and seeing size 10s hanging in my wardrobe makes me feel happy.
If I had to buy in size 16 (which I was before) I would feel crap because I know that's where I was.
I'm not bashing bigger sizes at all it's my own personal bug bear of feeling smaller because the size is smaller.

I don't care what the label says, I just want consistency. I don't want to have to take 2 or even 3 sizes into the changing room, or more likely these days, order them online. Or think 'well I'm a 16 in Primark, a 14 in M&S, a 12 in Next etc etc'.

Shops complain that people return a lot of what they buy online. If there was some consistency in sizing and clothes were actually made in line with their own published size guides, people would order and return far less.

^I lost loads of weight a few years ago and seeing size 10s hanging in my wardrobe makes me feel happy.
If I had to buy in size 16 (which I was before) I would feel crap because I know that's where I was^

But you can look at yourself in the mirror and see that you are slimmer. If it went the other way and you got bigger but it coincided with the clothes getting bigger, you still know you've put on weight, the number in your clothes doesn't change that.

Sizing in all shops are all I ever the place but that woman is deluding herself if she thinks she is a size 10. I’m a 10 and am about half her size. Nothing wrong with being a bigger size. But don’t go trying to squeeze into small sizes and get upset about it.

I don’t shop in Primark but looking at that article that lady doesn’t look a 10? I’m slimmer than her (by a little bit) and I’m a 12-14. But unfair to berate a clothing chain because you can’t fit in the size you think you are?

I think we should stop doing these sizes for women and go by measurements like men do - “this is a 34” waist, 30” leg” for example, or “oh it’s a 38 chest size”

We’d get better at buying clothes that fit us I think!

Also women often say “I am a size 12” for example as though it defines them. Men don’t go about calling themselves a size. They might say “I wear a x inch chest” which is much healthier in my view

Sizes are slowly becoming more generous as time goes on. If you try on clothes from a vintage shop the difference is staggering. I like making clothes, I buy ready made clothes in a 12 or 14 but have sometimes made things from a pattern at size 18 and it's been a bit tight.

The Lady in the link is clearly not a 10 on her bottom half.

@brokenbiscuitsx

I actually wonder if the Mirror asked this lady’s permission to post her story/pics etc? It looks like she just shared a video on Tiktok…

We know that they often just lift stories from here without permission.

I’ve seen hacks post under Twitter photos asking if they can share photos, been told no but still shared them.

A publicity shy Tik Tok user who doesn’t want to ‘go viral’? The changing room woman is unique indeed!

I've always found it hard to get the right size in primark, tops are ok ( ish) but jeans and leggings etc I buy elsewhere. I think it's really a ' skinny minny' shop to be honest and they do skimp on the material!

You do realise you're the same weight regardless of what the label on your clothes says? Just because you can fit into a 16 in Dorothy Perkins instead of a 20 at Primark doesn't mean you've shed 2st crossing the road. It means their sizes are different. You are exactly the same.

There is a lot in the press about Primark upsizing at the moment.

In fact they admitted to doing this in the factories I believe (I will try and find the source) as basically when they run out of say, 14's in a range they will stick size 16 labels on them or something.