H & M sizing changing (apparently)

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I was in H & M earlier with DD exchanging the shorts that I'd bought her the other day without her with me. She's 11 but tall (5'4) and thin as a rail.

I'd bought her the age 12-13 which were tiny so returned them today and she tried on an age 13-14. Still tiny, so she tries on age 14+ which she can't even do up.

So we go downstairs to the adult dept and try on a size 6. Can't even do them up. DD now asks me if she's getting fat. Absolutely not, I tell her the sizing is ridiculous. So she tries on a size 8 and they're massive on her so she settles for a skirt instead (in a size 4). What the actual fuck?

I had a wee gripe about the sizing with the very lovely sales assistant who completely agreed and told me that the new season garments will all be resized so that current size 10 is an 8 etc etc. This is the first time I've shopped in H & M for DD but I reckon it'll be the last if the sizing is so fucked up that an 11 year old kid who runs for county reckons she's getting fat. I hope it's true and they're at least making an effort to stop this ridiculous nonsense.

I wore my H&M Pima cotton nightie last night in medium and put on the washed linen dressing gown in S/M as the M/L is humongous. The point being it’s not just a young persons shop.
I am 53!
And the sizing is totally inconsistent across the range.If it was consistently small or consistently big it wouldn’t be so bad.

MaisyPops funny because I buy loads from h&m as they are well proportioned for my hourglass body. So obviously they don't only cater to your shape.

And that still doesn't change the fact their sizes are inconsistent.

two garments in a size 8 actually physically being completely different sizes.
That's annoying, and I've seen it happen a couple of times. It's a manufacturing problem which crops up and is reasonably common in lots of high street shops. Part of lower priced clothing (and even not so low priced in places).

sleeping
The likelihood is we are probably buying different items. I like that they tend to cater for narrower builds. It doesn't mean every item in the shop is going to suits me.

I like H&M because I can get skinny fit trouers that don't have loads of bum and hip space. Ive seen quite a few women on here (& friends off line) who won't buy the skinny trousers or the slim fit capris because the cut is too narrow.
Equally, they've had some lovely dresses in that look shocking on my frame. I pick up an 8-10 which normally fits, but the garment looks crap. That's not H&M's fault; it's a garment not being suited to my shape.
Too many people expect to be able to walk into a shop, pick up what they consider 'their size' and have everything fit them perfectly. It won't. Around 6 of my friends also take an 8-10. One is flat chested, one has larger boobs and is curvy, one is very petite with short legs, another is quite athletic with muscular shoulders and thighs. All take the same dress size. Not all of them will fit into the same size 8-10 item.

I've shopped pretty much everywhere on the high street and I know what I like. I've been a H&M customer for years and years and I still have a soft spot for it but I would say it's unique in its inconsistency.

If everything was always three sizes smaller than normal that would not be a problem for me. But it's not. What I do find a problem is always having to take at least 3 sizes into a changing room and (bearing in mind my local branch doesn't have the best stock) never having the confidence or the energy to order online. There are other stores as cheap or even cheaper than H&M who manage this far better.

DD has always found the likes of Primark, NewLook etc are significantly more consistent in their sizing.

MaisyPops but they don't 'tend to cater for narrower builds' because I shop there a lot and I'm not narrow. But thanks for the patronising explanation on how clothes work. Still doesn't change that the same item in different sizes, or even the same size, are inconsistent

Maisy, I think we all understand that you can't just walk in to a shop and pick up 'your size'. I've been buying my own clothes for 40 years so I kind of know how it goes.

I think you're missing the point a bit about the ludicrous inconsistently in sizing in H & M. But I get it, you think it's great and that's fine. I still stand by my comments that their inconsistencies are so much greater than most retailers that it's farcical.

They can't win then? Their black label line gets lambasted for running small, but then you can't say they cater to smaller builds.

There's some inconsistencies. I do get that. Inconsistencies are annoying.
I think my frustration is that them 'being smaller' in fit seems to be the crux of loads of objections (and yet as others on here have said, many of us can actually buy clothes that fit reasonably there).

Tell your daughter not to get hung up on clothes sizes

Is girls' self esteem really so fragile that a bigger size in one shop can make them think they are "fat"?

If a HM top comes up small, just buy the size up (or not) and laugh about silly retailers or shop elsewhere. Surely not a biggie

Is girls' self esteem really so fragile that a bigger size in one shop can make them think they are "fat"?

She's 11 Peanut. Of course I told her it was a load of nonsense, but she, like lots of girls her age, is very self conscious as it is.

Maisypops the irritation is from the inconsistency in sizing making it impossible to know what size to take into the changing room. If they were universally 2 sizes smaller than other shops that would be ok but they aren't, they are all over the place.

These threads always make me feel like a freak. I like H&M sizing - am a size short 12/14 and usually find a 14 or a m fits fine and sometimes a s. It's the only shop where I have stuff in a 10 actually. Zara and primary I find the same

Next/gap/M&S/warehouse where everyone says it comes up big - totally different experience and I find it often barely fits.

Freak I tell you.

phyllis
We're all a bit freaky really in our own way.

I tried a pencil skirt on in Primark and the 6 was huge on the hips. Then they startef bringing in 4s and I have a size 4 jumper There is zero way at all i am a 4. If only because in Primary strap tops I take a 12. It's part of cheaper clothing. I just take 2 sizes in if i'm stuck between sizes. But then I tend not to 'go shopping' as a fun day out and only if I'm after something so it's not a big deal taking 5 things in instead of 3.

Praise be! Im a size 8 in M&S and a 14 in H&M!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44367791

(H&M to make female clothes sizes bigger)

H+M sizing is the worst. A few months back a colleague (comfy size 12) bought some trousers..tried them in the toilets and couldnt get them up.. so we got other colleagues to try them (size 6,8 and 10) and we discovered theyd actually fit someone size 7 😂 if only that was a thing.

Haven't RTFT but H&M sizing is always mad. Trousers seem tiny but a couple of tops I got recently were size S as they're huge otherwise. And I am a 12 with broad shoulders so not a shrinking violet by any means!

Last year I had to buy a dress from h and m's younger bit in a 14 the same day as next 8 was too big
Yup sizing is all over the place

YY bagel - I've had to have extra small and nobody would look at me and think 'she looks extra small'

H&M to make female clothes sizes bigger
Great so now when entirely normally small people already take an 8/10 XS-S, I'll find myself having to hope they bring out an XXS for me and an XXXS for those petitle people who are even smaller than me. (Like Primark bringing out a size 4).

Wait, that probably won't happen because then people who love claiming H&M promote eating disorders will be bitching about how stocking smaller sizes promotes anorexia because so much as seeing clothes and sizes for smaller women is going ti cripple their self worth.

One of the only shops I can reliably buy clothes in is going to make my measurements a size 6. Absolute joke
I was a size 6 5-10 years ago. I am over 2 stone heavier now and have bigger measurements. But hey, fine tell me I'm a size 6 now so I can pretend I'm super skinny rather than a slim, healthy person.