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Confused about clothing sizes
Female, 24
I've had an eating disorder but as things have improved with my eating the weight has piled on to more than it was before i got ill so i'm very conscious of how "fat" i am.
Anyway, i was used to fitting into age 13 clothes but recently I'm in "adult" sizes and im confused about what size to go for.
In PJ bottoms (elastic waist) i'm a size 12, but i ordered 2 pairs of size 14 jeans and 1 pair of size 14 trousers all from the same catalog but only one pair of the jeans fit me, the other 2 were too small.
According to internet size charts i'm a size 18 - 20, which i always imagine to be absolutely huge.
I just don't know what size to get, and do other people find size charts get it wrong too?
Thank you
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Every store has different sizes. A 14 in one store could be a 16 in another. Sadly, this is also the same for different items in the SAME store. If you have a different style, the sizes are likely to be a little different. I've had experiences where the size chart said i would be a 4 but i ended up being a 6. BUt, this is one of the chances you take with online shopping. Try seeing if you can return these pants and go to the actuall store so that you can try on the pants. Also, the number doesn't matter. As long as your happy it shouldn't matter if your 100lbs or 300lbs. You should be in 'adult' sizes. At 24, your an adult. Your not fat. I'm 14 and I'm in adult clothes. I hope I helped
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Size carts are not simply wrong, if you are buying from an American catalogue they are have almost no basis in reality.
The original sizing charts were designed in the late 1950's. Sometimes this is called ‘Vogue Sizing’ since Vogue and many other couture lines have stuck to standardization and have not fallen into the trap of size inflation.
In they states there is no consistency among ready-to-wear manufacturers and brands. There is no law or policy that says what ‘Size 6’ ought to be. There is no reason for a manufacturer not to call what might actually have the measurements of a size 10, a size 6, just to make women feel better about being a size 6.
And they do just that. It’s called vanity sizing.
20 years ago we did not have size 0 and 00. People did not get smaller. Our clothes got bigger and they needed a new name for the smallest sizes.That's why they say that Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. In today's day an age she would be a size 6. I’ve very found of tell uptight little blonde sticks who don’t grasp the evilness of this practice that I’m a ‘Vogue 8’, because I AM an 8 in proper standardized sizing, even though when I go to stores I wear everything from a 5 to a 14 depending on where I’m shopping.
It’s also why catalogue purchasing doesn’t make as much sense as it did in the past decades. Sizes are NOT consistent at all. Each manufacturer will do something differently; sometimes it won’t even be consistent at the same store.
It’s just one more way society at large has fueled the female obsession with size. Best to ignore the ‘size’ on your clothing, its pure science fiction and doesn’t reflect your body type in anyway at all. Just buy what fits well.
If you are going to order from catalogues, just know what you are getting yourself into and make sure they have a good return policy. Because there is no escaping the fact that sizes just don't make sense.
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