Why Women's Clothing Sizes Don't Matter - It's Not Your Fault

Three different stores, three pairs of pants, all the same size, only one pair fit. Don't know what size to wear? You are not alone. This video tells you how women's "standard" sizing came to be and where it's at now. Don't like your size? Just cut out the label, it has no meaning.

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#6 Helen White 2016-08-29 01:56

This summer I bought a beautiful jacket at an upscale consignment shop - Chico Size 2 - I wear a much larger size than this. I know from growing up, the upscale dress shops my mother frequented, had different sizes, smaller than regular sizes.

#5 Eileen Burke 2016-08-14 20:54

I think some of this starts 30 or 40 years ago. In the 1970's, I could buy a blouse in a sealed bag and it would fit. Some brands fit some people better, but they all fit tolerably well. Then one day I went shopping and "women's" size meant plus size. Before that women's sizes had just been a different cut, with more room in the bust and hips than the misses or junior sizes. Junior sizes had a shorter crotch and less room behind. Now we are all one, and I have clothing from extra small to extra large, 4 to 14. Catalogs also show thin women wearing very large sizes, for a flattering drape. I'm sure of this because I'm not any bigger than the models, and probably shorter.

#4 angelofalass 2016-08-14 19:47

I use to go to the fashion bug in our area for my plus size clothing. One year I got a size 24 then the next year I had to get a 26 and then the next year I had to get size 28. I happen to politely say to the saleperson. "I wish they did't keep changing the sizes. She rudely said "Well I guess you gain weight. And I said no Mam. I still fit my size 24 and my 26 and now this 28 and they all fit me the same and I got them all here.

#3 Marlette0613 2016-08-14 16:06

Having started sewing at age 5 and making my clothes by 12 I have experienced the whole gamut of size changes in my 70 yrs.

I gave up trying to make sense of commercial patterns for sewing and learned how to make my own to fit me and others I might sew for. It was the best thing I ever did to improve the fit of my garments!
In 1955 my mother wore a size 16.. She was 5'5 and weighed 125lbs. She obviously would be in a much smaller size were she to purchase clothing today.

I truly hope women could see this video in masse and understand size is just a number, like age.

#2 D 2016-08-14 13:36

What was mentioned in the video isn't the only problem. Most clothing now isn't made in the U.S. and the sizing, even in the same brand, from the same company website, the same "size" isn't consistent. I have purchased the same pair of pants, in the same size, from the same source (the company website), and had them be as much as 2" smaller in the waist and hips.
A lot of the stitching is done poorly as well. I have had at least 3 pairs of the same jeans that I had to restitch the zipper flaps because they were sewn improperly and pulled apart.
As for the sizes,, well.. I hope that the size I wear hasn't been rolled down to a smaller size, but if so I will keep thinking it's "really" my size. :lol:

#1 KatieQ 2016-08-14 12:05

Just as I have suspected for quite awhile. So glad to have it confirmed!

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