H & M nearly killed my daughter

[motherofteen1]

When my daughter was suffering from an eating disorder, she got desperately thin. At under 6 stone, and looking gaunt and close to hospitalisation, we went to H & M to buy some jeans, and found that the size 6 were snug. She then decided that she needed to lose more weight as she wanted to be a size 6. On closer inspection H&M SIZE 6 ADULT = GIRLS AGE 8/9. (The corresponding XS mens = 13/14 boys). H & M is a full size smaller than other high street brands such as Top Shop and Zara. What is this doing to our already fragile daughters? I have written to H & M, including to their head office director, and so far they are not agreeing to change their size charts. Anorexia is the biggest mental health cause of death - What can we do to change H & Ms sizing policy? (of course it is cheaper to make smaller sized clothing). Any advice, post sharing, PR ideas please.

I think it is fairly true to size, sorry. jeans massively vary in fit depending on their style: skinny, bootcut etc. from whatever shop you go to so a skinny 6 is probs a 'regular' 2 or 4.
M&S and Next come up massive, Top Shop is tiny so I don't bother! DD is size 6 and a clotheshorse but she has 2 pairs of gap jeans - the skinny one is a bigger waist size but tighter than the smaller-waisted baggies pair.

Men's clothing is less complicated than women's, kmc, I'm not convinced men's body shapes are more uniform. My relatively small built DH nevertheless often has a problem getting the right crotch depth on his trousers and jeans, and don't get me started on shoe sizes. The difference is that men get away more with rubbishy fits and marginally less than flattering cuts because they don't tend to get marked out of ten for their style unless they're David Beckham

That's disgusting that a size 6 = age 8/9!!! I have 2 teenage DDs and the eldest is 16, a size 10, but thinks she is fat because lots of her friends are a size 8. We were looking at prom dresses online, the photograph of the model is supposed to give you an indication of how the dress will look but below the photo it says, "Model wears a size 8 and is 5ft 9." how is that representative?

I do agree that actual measurement sizes would be better and carry less of a badge of honour or conversely, shame!