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Pant Size Mystery
Okay. I took a tape measure couple weeks ago, and found my waist at a whopping 30 inches. Mortified, I glanced at charts and saw that that meant I had a size 11. I went to Hollister a few days ago, and tried the size. It hung off me like elephant skin. I tried a size 3, and found that it fit perfectly. What is this?? I should have to have 3 inches off my waist for that size. I've always worn 3's and don't know why my tape gives a 30 in. waist every time. I have no hips (31 in.), but don't know what that would have to do with it. Any help?
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Your tape is right. It's the sizes at stores that don't make any damn sense.
The people who make and sell you clothing are in the bussiness of making you feel good, not of being accurate.
If sizes of clothing where the same as they were in the 60's, I, who commonly wear a size 5 to 8, would wear a size 12 to 16. So why don't I?
As women aged they wanted to be the same size, so stores adjusted the sizing. The addition of size 00 did not happen because people are getting smaller, it happened because people are getting bigger, but don't want to know it.
The only place you'll find even remotely correct sizing is on patterns for sewing. Everything else has been warped beyond imagination. So don't worry about your size. It's like worrying about what to call the colour of your lipstick. It's needlessly exacting and pointless.
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The size charts usually aren't very accurate.
As you can tell you have to try them on in order to see if they fit. Your not a size 11 the size charts just messed up (=
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