Women's Clothing - Sizes

[Puppies04]

The good thing about that is that once in a blue moon they make jeans way too damn short, and they actually fit me🙂.

I'm 5'4"... Effing off the shelf pants do not fit me when my in-seam is 26".

Do they not have manlet stores in Canada?

 

[MichaelD]

Women don't think in empirical numbers. They are emotionally and gossip-based human lifeforms. Therefore I've come up with a new Women's Clothing Sizing System that appeals to the female line of thinking. The description is truly representative of the female form indicated. No "Oh I'm a size 10 but sometimes a 16" BS needed here.

From smallest to largest:

STPES (Stick Twig Please Eat Something)
HPSW (Hundred Pounds Soaking Wet)
BT34B (Buck Thirty, 34B)
55BR (Five-foot five, Big Rack)
NCBH (No Chest Big Hips)
BHTA (Brick House, Tits & Ass)
55220 (Five-foot 5 inches, 220 pounds)
511VBP (Five-eleven Volley Ball Player)
TARP (Weight exceeding 250 pounds)

 

[shortylickens]

it's not really just a fat thing.

even when I was down to 150 and looked anorexic, I had clothing size issues (eg: 2 pairs of the same style of jeans from the same store in different colors... get home to find that one is loose on my waist and painfully tight around my calves)

Try stuff on in the dressing room. If you're worried about muggings go with a body guard.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

eh. even in men's clothes, the sizes are made up.

buy a pair of pants and take out a measuring tape to actually see how large they are.

I always love it when I try on a pair of pants in the store and they fit great so I decide to buy the pants in a couple different colors, only to get home and find that all pairs fit completely differently.

One shopping trip, I tried on 33" waist jeans from three different manufacturers. One fit perfectly, one was falling off without a belt in, and one I couldn't even button. The numbers are lies!

 

[nageov3t]

Try stuff on in the dressing room. If you're worried about muggings go with a body guard.

obviously, there are many solutions to the problem, but it shouldn't be a problem in the first place.

I should be able to take a measuring tape to the store with me and measure any pair of pants from any brand as having the same measurements as their label says they are.

 

[tynopik]

obviously, there are many solutions to the problem, but it shouldn't be a problem in the first place.

I should be able to take a measuring tape to the store with me and measure any pair of pants from any brand as having the same measurements as their label says they are.

but you can't and never will, which is why they should do away with sizes altogether. Besides being an imperfect analogue for fit, sizes will always be manipulated to the point of uselessness.

So let's just do away with the fiction of sizes once and for all

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

There's almost no way you could have a 40 waist and not be fat. You'd need to be like 8-9 feet tall. As a male, having a 40 waist would get you kicked out of the air force for being too fat; it's way lower for women.

On the jeans thing, almost all the 28" pants I've found fit me... the problem is finding stores that carry 28s >.< They don't exist in normal stores anymore (walmart/sears/etc).

 

[shortylickens]

but you can't and never will, which is why they should do away with sizes altogether. Besides being an imperfect analogue for fit, sizes will always be manipulated.

I dont know anyone with custom tailored jeans.
Which is funny cuz people will spend 500 bucks on them and I can get a suit made for less.

 

[tynopik]

I dont know anyone with custom tailored jeans.

Who said anything about custom-tailored?

 

[Nebor]

eh?? I'm 5'11 with a 38 waist and everyone tells me I look like I need to eat (170lbs) 40 for a man shouldn't be close to fat unless the dude's a midget. When I was a 40 waist I looked at worst slightly overweight, and I mean slightly.

Does not compute. Do you wear your pants up under your armpits?

 

[KidNiki1]

Yes you have.
Hi, nice to meet you.

I hate clothing shopping... for all the reasons stated in the OP, and more. And shoes are even worse.

second. now you know two. take it back. 😛

 

[randomrogue]

A women who wore a size 8 in 1950 would wear a size 00 today. A size 8 was the smallest size available then. They have adjusted the clothes sizes so that women don't feel fat since a size 8 today would be a size "100" in 1950.

Pretty sure the more expensive the clothes store is, the smaller the numbers they put on their clothes as well. That way you can go to Walmart and be a size "100" or you can go to a designer clothes store and tell your friends that you're down to a size 10.

It's marketing at its best.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Women don't think in empirical numbers. They are emotionally and gossip-based human lifeforms. Therefore I've come up with a new Women's Clothing Sizing System that appeals to the female line of thinking. The description is truly representative of the female form indicated. No "Oh I'm a size 10 but sometimes a 16" BS needed here.

From smallest to largest:

STPES (Stick Twig Please Eat Something)
HPSW (Hundred Pounds Soaking Wet)
BT34B (Buck Thirty, 34B)
55BR (Five-foot five, Big Rack)
NCBH (No Chest Big Hips)
BHTA (Brick House, Tits & Ass)
55220 (Five-foot 5 inches, 220 pounds)
511VBP (Five-eleven Volley Ball Player)
TARP (Weight exceeding 250 pounds)

That is....obscenely well done.

 

[randomrogue]

One shopping trip, I tried on 33" waist jeans from three different manufacturers. One fit perfectly, one was falling off without a belt in, and one I couldn't even button. The numbers are lies!

They must only do this on the larger sizes then. I just bought jeans yesterday and definitely did not experience this. A size 28 is a size 28. A 29 is a 29. A 30 is a 30. At least up to 32 I've never had this problem. It's very easy to shop as long as the store has these sizes. It was crazy to see how many larger sizes were on the shelf vs smaller. Compare this to shopping in Asia and it's night and day. I loved watching Americans try to shop in Thailand only to bitch that nothing was small enough for them. In Europe it's not as extreme but still a shoppers paradise if you're normal sizes.

 

[uclaLabrat]

What really pisses me off (and my wife as well) is that clothes are made for normal people, clothes are made for fat people, but clothes aren't made for tall people. XL and XXL T-shirts are the same length, just different widths, so neither are long enough for me. My wife can never buy dresses because they always add a bit more fabric where the ass is supposed to be (duh, makes sense) but on my wife that area is around her mid-lower back, so she gets a huge balloon of excess fabric there, and it's too tight around her ass and thighs (well, for her maybe 😀)

 

[tynopik]

What really pisses me off (and my wife as well) is that clothes are made for normal people, clothes are made for fat people, but clothes aren't made for tall people. XL and XXL T-shirts are the same length, just different widths, so neither are long enough for me. My wife can never buy dresses because they always add a bit more fabric where the ass is supposed to be (duh, makes sense) but on my wife that area is around her mid-lower back, so she gets a huge balloon of excess fabric there, and it's too tight around her ass and thighs (well, for her maybe 😀)

this again gets back to the stupidity of trying to reduce the fit of clothes to a single number (or pair of numbers)

The current system is simply inadequate for the wide variety of body types out there.

 

[tynopik]

I loved watching Americans try to shop in Thailand only to bitch that nothing was small enough for them.

clothes in thailand are too big for Americans?

 

[randomrogue]

They should just convert everything to the metric system but that still wouldn't solve the problem of people with large feet or long legs struggling to find clothes.

I'd bet though that uclabrat and his wife would have a much easier time shopping in say the Netherlands or Scandinavia since there are lots of tall people there.

 

[randomrogue]

clothes in thailand are too big for Americans?

lol you know what I meant!

 

[Lemon law]

Maybe I am wrong here, but why are woman's dresses sized by one number? Like size 6 which is supposed to be petite ideal

Yet one gal may be 5'10' or taller while another gal may be five foot or under and still be the size 6 petite ideal. As I don't understand why the tall girl will not find the same size 6 dress will end up looking like she is wearing a miniskirt while the short girl will look as she is wearing a to the ankles granny skirt?

 

[Imp]

Do they not have manlet stores in Canada?

They actually do. There's one that's about a 20 minute walk from my place, and I went in there once after work... Holy shit it was expensive. All decked out in Huge Boss, stocked full of rich-and-fat-short-guy clothes staffed by the same. Think the cheapest thing I found in there was a polo for $120.

F*ck that, I'll just buy from JCrew.