Went from a size 10 to 14 in one day!

jacqui250

While enjoying some much needed retail therapy yesterday I could not help but notice how in GAP I was a size 10 (uk) then all I had to do was walk up the high street to Primark and I had increased to a size 14??? WTF people there should be size regulators scouring our high streets to stop this!! The thing is I loved the 14 jeans from primark but refused to buy them as I'm not a 14!! Even though they were cheap ;-)

2LoveEnnisMccall6

It's so annoying and makes you feel rubbish but that's just shops for you all different. I was size 14 in jeans at one shop and 10 in the other at the same time
Btw I'm a size 12. But hooray all 14 stuff is so baggy. 12 stuff no longer tigh
there slowly becoming big on me hopefully a size 10 in September!

shinisize

I fully agree! I live in the US, and went once to buy jeans at American Eagle. I was in high school still, so I was really excited to buy the pants that so many girls liked. I've never even looked twice at a pair of pants in that store again. The sales lady sent me to the dressing room with a total of four pairs of pants. Two in the size I normally wear, and two the size bigger "just in case, sometimes they run small". I was suspicious and tried the larger size on and couldn't even get them over my knees. I was instantly on the verge of tears and hyperventilating. I quickly tried on the SMALLER size of pants. They were cut damn near three sizes bigger than the label claimed, I couldn't have kept them up with a belt. I quickly put my own jeans back down and explained to the sales lady that I just wasn't willing to pay $50 a pair for pants that required an entire afternoon of searching for a pair that fit and a xanax to survive the emotional rollercoaster of whatever random sizing program the warehouse gremlins used there.

LindsayHowlett

That's Primark for ya... They have to keep their costs down so they scrimp massively on material! Buy the jeans, cut the size label out! Wear them and look fab!!!!!

Saiklor

I like going to old navy because everywhere else I'm an 8-10, sometimes a 12, and at old navy I can fit a six. :-) Figure out which stores make you feel good and shop at those ones! (although I'd be the first in line to vote YES on a standardized sizing law so that I could shop ANYWHERE without feeling worried!)

gaiareeves

I don't really care about what 'size' the clothes are labelled as.

Because when it comes down to it, you're still the same size, no matter where you shop; the clothes of your size just have different numbers attached to them.

I'm generally a UK 10 (US 6), but if I see a nice dress in a store and it's a 14, whatever and it fits me, then I'm buying it, regardless of the label. It's the same as if I fit into a size 8 in some stores, I don't then think I've magically shrunk to a size 8, it's just a bigger cut.

Arbitrary numbers - be it on the scales or on your clothes labels - shouldn't possess the power to change your opinion of yourself or how you look.

emmy3111

buy them anyway and cut the tag out...

graelwyn

The only jeans I have ever bought from Primark are the stretch ones, and I can get into a 6 in those. I have noticed a lot of their other clothes seem to look small on the hanger, so I tend not to buy there as I like my clothes to be slightly loose for the most part. I find topshop seems to have increased their sizing as I can now get into a 6 there too. In gap, I am a 26 waist, I believe and xs in their sportwear.

freeli

Oh yes I noticed that too especially with Primark. ... Altho - I don't think it works for Bras unfortunately, I still only need a B, ha ha

ybcochrane

i know how you feel it's sooooo frustrating

sleepyjean88

Everything in Primark is made so much smaller than actual size, I wouldn't worry about it too much I just avoid Primark except for their pants, their pants are amazing but even then I've not bought any in years.

beccalucy

I really struggle with this too, in Dorothy perkins the other day I tried on 2 different pairs of jeans, in one pair the size 8 hung off me and in another it was way too tight. So frustrated and really not good for anyone mentally!

RhianSteph

ahh i cannot say how much I agree with this, although i do find Primark clothes to be bigger than many stores? I hate hate HATE trying on clothes..makes me feel AWFUL! Miss selfridge is soooo depressing!

migoi357

You all do realize that none of you ARE the number on the label of your clothes, right? You are all wonderful, intelligent, beautiful women. Some of you happen to wear clothes with different abstract symbols used to identify them...those symbols are not you and you are not those symbols.

chevvy53

dont worry about numbers lovey ... where what looks good !!

kellehbeans

I understand the pain. In Primark I am usually getting a lot smaller sizes. At the moment I am currently a size 12/14, although more a 14. With the tops I need to get a much larger size, but with my bottoms I thought I'd be safe with a 14, however when I walk, this skirt falls down!!! Not worth taking back though, it was only £3 and I could possibly just use a belt.

Republic is really bad. If you buy their Soul Cal stuff you generally need a size smaller. However, with Miso, especially the skinny jeans I have found I need to go two sizes bigger!!! When I received some jeans from the internet in an already size bigger and I couldn't even get my calf in them, I wanted to cry so much!

It's always better for you to wear clothes that fit properly though, as if they're too small they will always make you look fatter! You see that a lot in girls my age and younger. It looks awful! Especially with see-through leggings!

Josteyn

Look up 'vanity sizing', then petition your MP/Senator/Representative about getting it stopped. Happens to men as well. I'll put money on the clothes in your man's wardrobe not having the waist size they say they are.


If it is so 'needed' or 'wanted' by the customer, then why don't they do it for the inside leg measurement? I'd like to think I was taller...

JPal5

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1316389/New-Look-Topshop-change-clothes-sizes-flatter-customers.html

interesting. I agree such a pain to go shopping.

lesley1981

Primark is the only shop where I'm a size 10 on top and where a 14 is too tight on the bottom!

amortize20

if you shop at primark you've got to know the labels mean nothing, it's the only store i can be a size 32, 34 and 36 waist just by trying the same cut but different colour jeans.

go with whatever fits and you feel happy in and cut the labels out

hellsbells999

Hi all,
The whole sizing thing is a joke, I have been buying some midway clothes on ebay to tide me over till I get to my target and the sizes are sooooooo out!! I was gonna say can't we have measures in inches like men but it seems even thats not worth having!!
I guess I shall just stay in leggings until I reach my target LOL :-)

Ripcode

can't we have measures in inches like men

That wouldn't work either as the sizes are not always accurate either.

I buy pants that fit, not based on what the tag says.

tuppencehapenny

So-called "vanity" sizing is to blame for the fact that a size 16 in the 1940s is equivalent to a size 10 or even an 8 today (in the UK; vanity sizing in the US is even faster moving - that 1940s 16 is now about a size 6 US).

A blogging friend of mine is actually running a campaign for clearer sizing http://www.retrochick.co.uk/2011/05/25/campaign-for-clearer-sizing/ - it's so hard to shop in the high street these days. I do most of my shopping online - I wear vintage clothing so go purely by the measurements, not the label. So when I come to shopping on the high street I haven't the first idea what size to get. As recently as the 1980s some clothes were labelled [size 14 - to fit bust 36" hips 38"] or whatever - I don't see why they can't bring that back.

biddypat

Vanity sizing has us all upside down. I wish they could just pick a bloody size and leave it at that. I hate that from one shop to another you have to try everything on. I hate trying clothes on in shops, too warm, and the fitting room is usually too small with a que outside, aaaaaaargh, I have three pairs of Primark,( pennys we call it here) in my wardrobe all fit , size 10 , size 12, and size 14, madness. Picked up a pair of jeans last week size 10 and they won't pass my knees, Go figure. Next seem fairly true to size, they don't fluctuate between jeans anyway.

VintageFit

Even more fun when you're from out of the country!
I'm from Germany where I'm a size 40-42 (just the regular Large area), but in some stores I can fit into M-sized clothes while in other stores I feel like a gigantic hippo when I can't even fit into their XL versions...
when I shop on holiday in the UK, I am everything from a 10 to a 16! I even have some S-size shirts that fit me? It is so strange.
I ordered a dress from the US once, got it in XL for fear of a too tight waist, and it was wayy to big...

chelsa1986

Size really doesn't bother me. Don't get me wrong, I love fitting into smaller clothes, but what the label says doesn't determine how I feel.

Buy clothes to fit your body, to flatter the hard work you do; don't try to fit someone else's standard.

Moxylein

Easy to say, if some stores don't even have sizes "that big". I'm usually fitting in some 42 (german sizing), but in some stores the clothes are just that tiny, that you don't stand a chance even with the biggest size...
I'm really hoping that will change for me soon *sigh*

SoDamnHungry

Do numbers matter all that much? If they fit, they fit. Sounds like you missed out on a nice pair of pants.

hazelovesfood

Im afriad to say that primarks cloth are crap, Ive long since notice that one pair of say a 14 is not the same as the next. I can buy a 14 in there and it might be tight, or very close fitting but if i go to a good shop its loose lol. Best not to buy in there even if it is cheap lol.

toomuchlatte

I love this reply xx

jacqui250

Thanks guys I'm thinking about starting a new group "let's boycott primark till they get a grip" lol :-))))