Are you 5'9" ...

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.... and do you weigh 11.6 stone (74kg). If so, can I ask what dress size you are?

Gap long and lean or monsoon kick flares for jeans - but I have normal length legs and a long torso. Its tops I struggle with, and for those I just have to be really specific when choosing and try everything on.

I'm lucky that at 5' 10" I'm only 33 leg. All my length is in my body and arms so I have to avoid anything waisted, belted or cropped length, very few jackets suit me and I always read the reviews to see if people are moaning about the overlong sleeves on tops and knitwear. I buy a lot of three quarter length sleeve tops.

I also bought the famed Merrell Wakefield coat in large (in the sale) and it fits perfectly.

Can I say again for those who are saying you are bigger sizes at lower weights, you cannot under-estimate bone density. That is why BMI is so variable. You lot obviously have lighter bones. I was 10 stone at 13 and 12 stone by the end of high school, at which point I was a county gymnast and hockey player and did dancing for 4 hours a week - I didn't have an ounce of fat on me. I have heavy bones.

Rather muscles mainly, I'd have thought? You must have been super toned with no fat so you would weigh more while looking v slim!

5'9 and 10st 5 and I'm a 12 in less fashion shops but a 14 in fashion shops such as top shop.
Want to lose another stone/stone half and get to a 10/12. Will be the first time in 16 years

I am that height and was once that weight. I was a ten on top and twelve on the bottom.

I'm 5ft 10 and 11.6 ATM, size differs ridiculously shop by shop. Most of my things are a 10 on top and 12 on bottom bt I'm sure that's vanity sizing. I feel a 12 on top and 14 on bottom if that makes sense.

5'10 but massively heavier at 103kg
Size 16 top and bottom

Everybody is different, a close friend and I have extremely different figures but weigh exactly the same (she's only a couple of inches smaller than me). You just need to try stuff on before you buy to find out which size to purchase - shops seem to have different opinions on what a size in. Some places, I can fit into a 10 or even an 8... other shops I'm a 12 :-)

You all must have really heavy legs and arms!

Yes, 5"9 but 13 stone & a size 14.

fridgepants I am pretty much your height/weight and size! Having measured I am just over 5'10 and about 15s9lbs

Yes but am preg. Was 70kg not pregnant and 12 on top, 12 on bottom. 12 on top loose, 12 on bottom tight. I'm normally around 65 and am a 10 on top and loose 12 on bottom at that weight. at 60kgs 10 on top and bottom. Very much pear shaped here! And no boobs excl preg/bf

And what Salbertina says. it's muscle not bone density most likely that is confusing everyone. I was at one point a powerlifter and weighed 65kgs. I was more of an 8/10 at that weight rather than at my 65kgs of fat a 10/12.

I read somewhere once about bone size - you can tell if you are big or small boned by putting your thumb and index finger round your wrist - if it just touches you're medium build, if it overlaps small build and if it doesn't meet you are large build.

That could all be a aload of old bollocks but it makes sense with me, I have very small wrists and ankles despite being a great big tall thing.

Cheers getorf, I now feel like a wee elfin Audrey Hepburn creature. utterly deluded

Yes, that's what I think, then I catch sight of the rest of me and the illusion is lost.

ooh, just tried that and seems I am big-boned...just digesting the implications of that - think a glass of wine might help...

Yes - I've read the wrist factor too. It makes me a medium. I honestly believe my enormous boobs - 34GG must weigh quite a lot!!!!

I think big boobs must make a difference, surely.

Right going by he index thumb measure, I'm large build....but I have a small rib cage, skinny arms and I need to be under 10 stone before I hit size 10 - does that follow the theory?

I'm 5'9, and pre children weighed about 73kg, and was a 14/16.

When I was 17 and 63kg was a size 12.

I'm now 36, and am a size 18 but daren't look at the scales

I'm 5'9, 74 kg & a size 12, not massive boobage but enough, I do exercise a lot though

I don't get these threads, either.

I'm 5'9" (who knew there were so many of us?!) and weight 68.5kg. I'm a comfortable size 12.

I do have some size 10 and 8 stuff in my wardrobe, but no way am I actually these sizes - these are purely vanity-sized clothes. I'd be deluded if I thought fitting into these clothes meant I could describe myself as these sizes.