To think size 12 isn’t Large?

[Vastimir]

I’d say it’s more Medium. Vinted disagrees. AIBU?

5 foot 6.

Hard agree, op - I'm sure when I was a kid, 10 was considered small, 12 sort of medium? It's a natural healthy size for a lot of women, and I suppose my worry is framing it that way might make some teens and young women who land at that size feel they must be 'fat' because their clothing size is described as 'large'

I think it’s relative. I’m 5’4 and if wearing a size 12 then I’m in the overweight category so yes, I’d say it’s large.

a size 10 is the same as my husbands medium (I can wear his clothes) so sounds right to me.

It annoys me too, as I have a search set up, and it gives me size 10s and Mediums, but the mediums are too big; in most S/M/L items, I'd go for the small. I think the 12 is likely when I'd buy a Medium, and 14 a large.

It's nothing to do with what people think is or should be medium/large etc, but realistically how the sizes tend to match up between different standards, and i mostly find that size 10 seems to match with small in most shops that do s/m/l

Agree! My husband was very bemused the other day when I tried on 4 different pairs of jeans all the same clothes size and only 1 pair fit correctly. It made no sense to him that one was too small, 2 too big and one just right.

I’m a size 16. Oh dear 😆

Yes, I was confused about this on Vinted. My default size is 12 (5'6" and 63kg) and I go for M if no size 12. I've always seen 12 as almost the very definition of medium on average height women. Oliver Bonas though, bloody hell, I can fit an 8 there!

Im a size 12 and would pretty much always buy a medium in high street clothes. Large would almost always be too big. Sometimes get a small in jumpers. Im probably the smaller end of 12, so I hate it when they do 8-10 12-14 clothes as neither option fits!

Yes this is what I'd say

I'd say 10-12 is medium. It varies so much from shop to shop though. Im 5'6" and wouldn't be large at a size 10-12 by anyone's standards.

I am wearing a relatives old dress today, from just after the war. It was a size 16 at the time. 34” bust. People are taller, bigger boned and better nutritioned now. Look at old dress patterns to see the difference. These days I am considered small - in addition to being short - but back then I’d have been fairly average height and quite stocky. These days I’m a size 6, and until recently was a size 18 in modern sizes! All of which is to say - ignore the size label!

It's hard to say

At my slimmest when I was 15 I was in a 8/10. Thought I'm pretty sure even then I was at least 10st. (I sound heavy but my boss were pretty visable-i know that's not abnormal but I wasn't eating at that point so it was quite noticeable but due to never reaching underweight BMI I was never considered to have an ED)

At my heaviest (21st 😳) I was a size 22.

Im now down to about 13st and fit into a size 14 most places or a medium.

Vanity sizing is definitely a thing! But at the same time I feel and look much smaller than I was at a 22.

Id be happy at a size 12 tbh 🤷🏼‍♀️

To me XL is 18-20, L is 16-18, medium is 14-16, small is 10-12

I don't care whether a size 12 is a medium or large, but I'm 5'8" and size 12 at 11.5 stone, which I'd definitely equate with a large, but whatever. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think of 8 as extra small, 10 as small etc

I’m 13 st 5lb, yet I am size 18-20!

I’d say 12 is a large because 10 is medium…
that feels like it makes sense to me, no idea where I’ve decided it from

I’m 5ft 6
hover between 8.10’-813
I’m a large 8 / small 10

BM1 I think is 19

Interesting this. When I was 18 and weighed 9.5 stone (height 5’ 7’’) I was always a size 12 for all clothes. A quarter of a century later, I weigh a stone more and am usually a size 10! So I think clothes sizing has definitely got bigger. But equally, at that age I was buying trousers and tops in Miss Selfridge rather than Hobbs, White Stuff or Fatface lol.

I'm a size 6-8 and would always consider it small. I can't count the number of times I've automatically picked up a small then got home and realised it's too big. In my head I'm no way an extra small.

As an average height, average BMI size 12, I feel distinctly medium. Interesting to see so many people disagree and would consider me large!

I can only dream of being a 12. Looking round my area it seems from the sizing on here that nearly all are XL!

Here we go again, it depends on height. For shorties like me, yes I would be obese in a size 12

Many decades ago I was a size 10 and always on a diet. I'd be a 6 now.

Yes if you are buying online and the options are small, medium or large.

What size is large?