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ok, really don't want to be the fat girl whinging about clothes sizes

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 13/02/2011 23:31

BUT..
WTF?? went into a shop this weekend with my friends one 8 months pregnant but a size 8 pre pregnancy and the other a size 8-10 currently.

they tried on various things but the clothes that they bought (with the non pregnant friend trying them on fo the pregnant friend) were sizes m and l the s and xs were far too small.

now I know I live in planet fat girl but really? since when did a size 8-10 equate to either m or l??

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phooey · 13/02/2011 23:34

Which shop was it? I'm a size 10 but in Mango and Zara I'm a medium.

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 13/02/2011 23:34

hollister??

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/02/2011 23:35

Superdry - I went there and 10 is classed as large. They don't do any sizes larger than that.

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 13/02/2011 23:36

really??? but how is that right?

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phooey · 14/02/2011 07:47

I guess it works for them? Hollister is aimed at teenagers afaik, and Mango/Zara are Spanish brands where women are generally slimmer, especially those interested in fashion.

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 14/02/2011 12:47

I guess it isn't the sizing that I don't like I am totally happy with a shop deciding it only wants to stock up to a 10 or 12 but to suggest that 10 is L is what gets to me.

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MoonGirl1981 · 14/02/2011 12:50

I tried on a Bench jacket once (was fluffy). Am a 12/14 and the biggest size would only just do up.

I think that these brands are designed for 12-16 year olds, rather than adults.

Compared to a 12 year old, a 16 year old would be 'large'.

bigTillyMint · 14/02/2011 12:56

DD(11) is an XS or S in those shops. She is 4foot 10 and very petite (28-30inch chest?).

So M would maybe be a 32 inch chest, L a 34?

They are aimed at 11/12 - 18's. Overpriced too Smile

bagpusswasthebest · 14/02/2011 13:04

Without being heavyhanded, it's these shops that make normal girls feel self-hatred. Bloody disgrace.

jaffacake79 · 14/02/2011 13:12

It's a load of rubbish it really is.
I was ranting to dh about it last night as I ironed a pair of dd's jeans that are age 11 to get the length right for her (she's 8!).
Talk about giving kids complexes. But, I also think that they're (clothing industry at large) making children's clothes smaller so that they go into adult sized clothes sooner, hence paying vat sooner too! It's all a con.

maryz · 14/02/2011 13:17

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TrillianAstra · 14/02/2011 13:20

YABU for going into Hollister in the first place I'm afraid.

Could you actually see anything? It's so dark! I wandered in once and walked straight out again.

Pollyanna · 14/02/2011 14:08

my dd aged 10.5 is a size xs or s in Hollister. she's a skinny little thing, with no hips and no chest. I can't see that a normal sized woman can fit into any clothes in there.

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 14/02/2011 16:00

Blush had NO idea it was a childrens shop Blush have I just done the equivalent of conplaining that mother care stuff doesn't fit me??

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JaneS · 14/02/2011 17:27

It is a load of rubbish, but OTOH I don't think it's great that some shops (East springs to mind) make big clothes and slap a size 10 label on them.

My mum refuses to accept she might be unhealthily fat because she is a size 14 in East, and size 14 is 'normal'. She observes that I am also a size 14 in, say, Karen Millen and therefore we're 'similar sizes'. I am 5'4 and weigh 11 stone, which is slightly overweight. I reckon she's about 3 dress sizes bigger than me, given I'm an 8 in East. Therefore, by my reckoning, she is really not a healthy size. She would never admit this and always relies on the size.

It'd be better all round if sizes were standardized, then we'd all have to be honest!

TrillianAstra · 14/02/2011 18:26

It's a super-extreme example of the older-target-market-bigger, younger-target-market-smaller.

L doesn't mean large, it just means larger than the other ones we make.

I sometimes think shops should just give up and do ABCD or 1234 or something, they're so inconsistent.

coldtits · 14/02/2011 18:31

You have disparity within shops too.

I have 2 sixe 14 denim skirts from the same shop. One is 3 inches wider than the other!

piratecat · 14/02/2011 18:38

my dd is 8yrs10m and really slim, tallish.

for the last year or so i have had to get her size 11-12 clothes. Ridculous, she is a little girl. Why don't 8/9 yr old clothes fit. I am buying the bigger age sizes to fit her comfortably width ways too, not just length.

Rowgtfc72 · 14/02/2011 19:02

Dd is nearly four.She is age 9-10 in tops. S he is as tall as the average five yr old but has a long back and therefore has the gap in the middle where nothing meets.Dont really want to look at pre teen clothes for her but theyre the only ones that fit ! I on the other hand wear a size 18 but if you go by the measuring sizes in catologues am a size 26-28! Incidently, I do own size 16 jeans I can do up and almost breathe in !

BeattieBow · 14/02/2011 19:22

I would say that Hollister is a teenagers shop not a children's or grown-ups shop fwiw. All teenagers seem to be tiny today though [old gimmer emoticon]

sizing in all shops is hit and miss though isn't it, and vanity sizing is widespread. i am still a size 12 today even though I weigh nearly 2 stone more than I did 25 years ago when I was also a 12.

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bagpusswasthebest · 15/02/2011 09:40

I'm going to East! Grin I soooo wanna be an 8

JaneS · 15/02/2011 10:49
Grin

I admit it is very soothing to go there on 'fat' days.

I do think teenagers are vulnerable to disbelieving the evidence that they're too thin because sizes are so varied. My little cousin posted on facebook a while back, and it appears she and her mates were having a valentine's day competition to get their waists down to 22 inches. They think this is 'fun'. Sad

mippy · 15/02/2011 11:50

I thought I was really fat when I was 16. I actually took a size ten. The smallest Topshop pants I've ever been able to fit into were size 14, and that was when I was at least a stone underweight (I'm 5ft 10 and have huge feet so I may have a big frame).