My weight and my clothes size don't make sense to me

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  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    lisawolfinger wrote: »
    There was a pre-1958 chart, then the federal government update sizes in 1958, 1970 and then 2001 and 2011, with new size standards. Basically, the size chart has change by half in the last 50 years.

    Marilyn Monreo 1958-size 12 2018 size 6
    Brigitte Bardot 1970-size 8 2018 size 0
    Queen Latifah 2001-size 18 2018 size 14

    Hard to believe she was a size 8 back then. Makes me wonder how many people actually were a size 0/2. Bardot-early-1950s.jpg

    To me, that is what a size 6-10 was in the 1980s. She has a gorgeous figure in that photo, with a bust and also developed legs. There were no 2s or 0s before the 1990s that I remember. At my thinnest, I was one of the smallest sizes in college (either 3/4 or 5/6) and it was VERY hard to find sizes in those clothes. Many stores did not make them. Most of my friends wore between 8-12 then (1980s). If they were chubby, then a 14 or 16.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    this is why i go by the old bmi chart...vanity sizing is a real thing...so yeah.. you're really a size 10.
  • lorib642
    lorib642 Posts: 1,942 Member
    There was a store 5-7-9 geared towards the smaller sizes, i remember.

    I just moved from a 16W to a regular 16. I am 5'5" 180 lbs. i don't want to know what that would have been. I stil wear plus size tops.
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    I have a vintage size 14 (UK) wool skirt suit. I am supposedly a size 10 (UK) even though I’m still slightly overweight.

    The skirt doesn’t do up. Yeah, vanity sizing is definitely a thing.

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