So what is the difference between US and UK

Rae6503

sizes?

Achoooo

When I lived there usually UK was one size smaller, but I was told by some that they would get 2 sizes smaller.
I am a 12 in US so I'd get a 10 in UK, usually.
However for jeans, and other pants, I'm never the same size from US store to store so hard to say sometimes... my experience was I'd go one size smaller, usually.
Shoes I don't remember but they are way off!

keenslk

Size 6 in the US is a size 10 UK... Im a size 10 in Auz which is a 10 in UK and a 6 in the US -

therefore, size 4 in US would be 8 in UK, size 8 in US would be 12 in UK etc etc

Achoooo

OH wow that was so not the experience my friends and I had while we lived there, perhaps it's changed since then. I may have had it backwards that I'd get one size larger in the UK, but I don't recall that large of a gap.

Rae6503

I know when I was a size 12 US and in Hong Kong, I tried on a pair of size 12 pants and couldn't even get them up over my thighs.... I then decided not to shop for clothes while there. But I never figured out what size I should have been.

keenslk

OH wow that was so not the experience my friends and I had while we lived there, perhaps it's changed since then. I may have had it backwards that I'd get one size larger in the UK, but I don't recall that large of a gap.

hmmmm yeah that is what it is like for me ... ??? I do lots of shoping online from both topshop (which is UK) and from the US ie Forever 21 etc and was in the states earlier this year...and was two dress sizes smaller than Auz (which uses UK)

I just wiki it to check too .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing_sizes

but guess everyone has different experiences re different shapes etc

Achoooo

Yeah I think so. You were right though for US it is smaller, but I never went that far down I was only one size difference. And like the former poster who said she couldn't even fit into the same size cause it was too small... yeah you know I can't even go to stores in the US and get the same size. That frustrates me. Today, I could not fit into an 8, but I have an older pair of 8's that fit me perfect. I have size 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 and 13 as well as a 7... Argh!

Yeah when I lived in UK I could have never worn two sizes difference from my US size. I was size 12 in UK but 10 in US. 14 UK was too large.

Gabby215

It's definitely two sizes now. In the US I'm a 10 and in the UK I'm a 14. Though towards the end of my six years in England I noticed that different stores were changing their sizes - i.e. in some stores a 14 is a 40 (European) but in others they make the 14 a European 42.