Are you really a size .0008.7? Are you?

LadyIvysMom
LadyIvysMom Posts: 391 Member
in Motivation and Support
I have a new pet peeve. Girls who brag that they are a size “insert tiny size here”.

Are you? Are you really?? Hmmm. Curious.

I wore a size 4 dress on Monday. I wore a pair of jeans in a size 12 Tuesday. Yesterday, Wednesday, I wore a skirt that was a size “medium” with a shirt that was a size “large”. Today I’m wearing jeans that are a size 8 with a top that is a size “extra small”.

What size am I? Do I just take some sort of Alice in Wonderland-esque body changing mushrooms and magically change size to fit whatever is in my closet? Sadly, no. I think it’s just the clothing. I buy whatever size fits me in whatever that particular garment happens to be. Sometimes it’s a 4. Sometimes it’s a 14. The bleep do I know? I’m taking the whole rack into the fitting room with me when I try stuff on.

(Curiously, the jeans (the 12 and the 8) are by the same maker, they’re just cut differently. So you can’t even just find a brand and stick with it! AGHHHHHH!!!)

So, Miss “I’m a size 2”, that’s all well and good, but speaking as a woman who has been shopping for clothing for, you know, all of my adult life, I don’t believe you that you are a size 2 every day in every outfit you own. If you are, then dammmm girl, you have more patience with shopping than I do. Cause there is literally no rhyme or reason to ladies attire sizing. None. Whatsoever.

(this, by the way men, is why we are all neurotic about our weight… don’t blame us, don’t even blame supermodels in the media. No, blame our ridiculous clothing sizes and our apparently mathematically challenged designers.)

I hear girls from time to time really gloating that they are a size “whatever” and you know, unless they are having all of their clothing tailor made all of the time and slapping a size 0 sticker on them, I’m calling shenanigans. You probably do have a bunch of clothes that are a size “whatever” but you also probably fit perfectly into a bunch of clothes that are a size “oh my god, I need to stop eating cookies”. You just maybe don’t purchase those ones.

I do purchase them and that is why my closet looks like 17 differently sized people choose their daily clothing from it.

Technically on Monday, I was a size 4. Maybe I should just stick with that and tell everyone that 4 is my size. ;)
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  • Pedal_Pusher
    Pedal_Pusher Posts: 1,166 Member
    Love this. You are awesome!
  • LittleMissDover
    LittleMissDover Posts: 820 Member
    Rant much?

    If I'm asked what size I am I'll give the average of what most of my clothes are. Wouldn't be useful if my boyfriend asked what size I was and I gave him a choice of 4.

    Same with shoes, I range from a 3 -5 but if asked I'll generally say I'm a 4.

    Personally couldn't give a stuff what size people say they are.
  • askcupid117
    askcupid117 Posts: 126 Member
    I love this! It is so true! People should not go based on clothing size, nor should they brag about it. EVER!
  • animatorswearbras
    animatorswearbras Posts: 1,001 Member
    Maybe people shouldn't brag about how much weight they've lost on here either 0_0

    Sorry but if I ever get down to a UK size 10 (US 6) I'm gonna stand on my work roof with a tannoy announcing to the world and offering to tattoo the fact onto peoples foreheads.

    Of course people are gonna brag about there "NSV's" it's half the motivation for not getting to eat deep fried cheese anymore
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    I am a size 4.. I wear 4's in all my clothing and Size Small top in all my tops... Last time I checked, clothing was pretty universal if you only shop at a few places instead of every store you see.

    Not sure why the hell you having so many issues when it comes to shopping or get pissed when people brag about size, but I worked my butt off to get where I am.. so best you best believe I'm going to celebrate it.

    Also, I highly doubt you wear a 4 some days and then a 12/14 other days... that is a huge difference in size no matter how the clothes are cut. So unless you are getting really fat and then really skinny with in the course of like a day, you should be able to find one size and stick with it.
  • head_in_rainbows
    head_in_rainbows Posts: 290 Member
    I know what you mean. There is this company Mango (I don't know if you have it in America) and I love their clothes but I some time ago I bought 3 items from tehir shop the same day: a t-shirt, a blouse and a longsleve and they were European size 36, 38 and 40 respectively. All were uperbody clothes from the same store!
    No point in looking at sizes.
  • almc170
    almc170 Posts: 1,093 Member
    My scale has barely moved in the 6 months since I started lifting weights. If I can fit into a smaller size, damn straight I'm going to celebrate it. What's wrong with that?
  • karensoxfan
    karensoxfan Posts: 902 Member
    ... unless they are having all of their clothing tailor made all of the time and slapping a size 0 sticker on them, I’m calling shenanigans. ...

    LOL. What a clever idea this would be though! :happy:
  • jamers3111
    jamers3111 Posts: 495 Member
    I LOVE THIS!!! Size Schmize. I have shirts ranging from xxs-large as well... pants size 2-8... It's all crap! I have one pair of jeans that I have had for years and I base how my body is changing on those since I feel my best when I can wear them.

    This post was awesome and so are you :)
  • kristen6022
    kristen6022 Posts: 1,923 Member
    Some of us are just super happy to have gotten where we are. I'm sorry if our success peeves you off. For me, I've always been a 12-14...smallest ever a 10. Now I can walk into any store and either a 6 or 4 will fit. Do you know how that feels to someone who has never worn (even in high school) below at 10 or a M/L shirt? Now some smalls are too big. That to me is amazing and it makes me feel pretty darn good.

    Seriously, deal with it.
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    I LOVE this! Very well said! :drinker:
  • wifealiciousness
    wifealiciousness Posts: 179 Member
    Haha, exactly this. In addition we Brits have that terrifying realisation that our sizes are DIFFERENT TO THE US. So for us a size 4-6 is the same as your 0-2 I think? But pretty much no-one in the UK is a size 4 (your size 0). You'd think of someone as skinny or thin if they're a size 10 or less (your size 6). It makes things even more confusing.......

    I'm a size 8-14 I think- I have broad shoulders and decent sized knockers but can still fit into some size 8 tops. But recently I've not been able to fit into size 12 trousers (new ones- I have old ones from the same brand that fit perfectly), and have been in size 14. It's not about a size or a weight but about a lifestyle! :)
  • Ph4lanx
    Ph4lanx Posts: 213 Member
    I don't get why women need a different size system from the rest of world. What's wrong with inches/centimetres/etc? :)
  • emy10284
    emy10284 Posts: 171 Member
    the OP point is ppl who just feel the need to annoyingly brag about their size i understand this i hate when ppl feel the need to fish for compliments or even lie about their
  • wifealiciousness
    wifealiciousness Posts: 179 Member
    I am a size 4.. I wear 4's in all my clothing and Size Small top in all my tops... Last time I checked, clothing was pretty universal if you only shop at a few places instead of every store you see.

    Not sure why the hell you having so many issues when it comes to shopping or get pissed when people brag about size, but I worked my butt off to get where I am.. so best you best believe I'm going to celebrate it.

    Also, I highly doubt you wear a 4 some days and then a 12/14 other days... that is a huge difference in size no matter how the clothes are cut. So unless you are getting really fat and then really skinny with in the course of like a day, you should be able to find one size and stick with it.


    aaaaah haha haha

    I think you should direct your anger into something productive!
  • fjrandol
    fjrandol Posts: 437 Member
    I am a size 4.. I wear 4's in all my clothing and Size Small top in all my tops... Last time I checked, clothing was pretty universal if you only shop at a few places instead of every store you see.

    Not sure why the hell you having so many issues when it comes to shopping or get pissed when people brag about size, but I worked my butt off to get where I am.. so best you best believe I'm going to celebrate it.

    I love Gap and buy all of my pants from them. I'm currently wearing a pair in size 6 that are falling off, have size 8s in my closet that fit me perfectly, another pair of 8s that I can barely button, and a pair of 10s that don't quite fit over my butt just yet. All from Gap. Fairly certain that if I "only shop at a few places" it isn't going to make a lick of difference as to what size I truly am.

    As an aside, I'm a ONE at Chico's, so I'll now be claiming that as my official size. :laugh:
  • elelat
    elelat Posts: 117
    One of my goals was to be a one digit size for jeans. Until I went to a salvation army store and had all this jeans from all sorts of brands about the same size with different numbers on their tags!
  • darsh11
    darsh11 Posts: 98
    My personal trainer used to say this to all of his women clients. Go get a sharpie and change the size in all your clothes to the size you want to be or get scissors and cut out all the tags of your clothes. Once you are done then you will realize that clothing size does not matter it is the way you look in your clothes and the confidence you have is what people see. So whether you are a size 0 or a size 24 the size only matters to you.
  • HeinzPrincess
    HeinzPrincess Posts: 92
    I hear you!

    I have size 6 pants from NY&Co that I wear regularly. I have size 6 shorts from Old Navy that I have a muffin top in. I have size 8 clothes that barely button and size 8 clothes that are comfy. Etc, etc, etc.

    It's a funny NSV because I've been there. Like the first time I bought a size small top I was like WTF? Size SMALL! But I have size large tops (from Jrs dept) that are skin tight.

    I love having smalls and size 6s in my closet, but I can't say that's the ONLY size I wear.
  • ashlinmarie
    ashlinmarie Posts: 1,263 Member
    I have 3 different cuts of jeans from the same store, size 8, 10, and 12 that I fit into perfectly. I have a pair of size 10 shorts from said store as well that do not fit, at all (well okay, they do, but I have muffin top like crazy and the front stretches when I button them) and another pair of size 10 shorts from the same store that fall off of me. Everything from American Eagle....I also can only wear XL shirts there (I'm chesty) but if I shop anywhere else, XL is like flapping in the wind.

    Of course, then I went and bought a few shirts from Maurices which must be size more towards teens than woman because I had to get a 1XL to fit comfortably over my chest!

    Yeah, I agree with this...it is the clothing designers giving us complexes, not models or whatever.
  • jamers3111
    jamers3111 Posts: 495 Member
    I know what you mean. There is this company Mango (I don't know if you have it in America) and I love their clothes but I some time ago I bought 3 items from tehir shop the same day: a t-shirt, a blouse and a longsleve and they were European size 36, 38 and 40 respectively. All were uperbody clothes from the same store!
    No point in looking at sizes.

    I love Mango! We have it in NYC and I shop there online... there sizes are not consistent at all but I still love their clothes :)
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    I am a size 4.. I wear 4's in all my clothing and Size Small top in all my tops... Last time I checked, clothing was pretty universal if you only shop at a few places instead of every store you see.

    Not sure why the hell you having so many issues when it comes to shopping or get pissed when people brag about size, but I worked my butt off to get where I am.. so best you best believe I'm going to celebrate it.

    Also, I highly doubt you wear a 4 some days and then a 12/14 other days... that is a huge difference in size no matter how the clothes are cut. So unless you are getting really fat and then really skinny with in the course of like a day, you should be able to find one size and stick with it.


    aaaaah haha haha

    I think you should direct your anger into something productive!

    I think if OP can rant.. so can I. :)

    Shopping is not difficult... and I have had no where near the issues she describes.. ever!
  • ScarletFyre
    ScarletFyre Posts: 754 Member
    :smile: I agree our sizing system is seriously messed up - in the same week i bought a t-shirt that was a medium...i KNOW that was wrong, because later that week i then bought an XL (which was what the rest of my closet had been)....and my fiance wonders why i can't walk into a store, go the the size "whatever" jeans and pick one. Why i have to pick 4 different sizes, maybe even 2 or 3 different cuts and try them on...

    and maybe one will fit.....
  • LuckyAng
    LuckyAng Posts: 1,173 Member
    I hear you about the head games the clothiers play, but this could have been written without the jabs at women who brag about their size. You bet your booty if I fit into a 4 again, someone is going to hear about it. Most likely just my Husband, but I'll be pretty excited so someone will know.
    Back to the real issue. Yeah, sizes are whack. There really should be a universal sizing system, it would eliminate a lot of dressing room stress! Yesterday I had the task of finding my daughter a specific style of under shirt to go under a cute top for picture day today. The main top was a size XS, and it was a little too big on her. She wanted it anyway, and it isn't too bad so I got it. But the under shirt... was an M. Medium on who, a Barbie? Skin tight, and she's a tiny little girl. Sizes suck!
  • bookyeti
    bookyeti Posts: 544 Member
    It's not about a size or a weight but about a lifestyle! :)
    This!
    I don't measure how good I feel or look by a number! I don't weigh myself but go by how my clothes fit and how I feel. Progress photos are a big help as well. Sizes are so variant when it comes to women's clothing - to the point of madness - and so it really makes no sense to go solely on that basis. On average I'm in a 14/16, but I have some smaller and some bigger pieces, depending on the cut or the material (stretch, etc.)

    I have a MIL who likes to look at the sizes on other people's clothing (and criticize, etc.), so I have the habit of snipping off the size tag if at all possible. It annoys her when she doesn't know what "size" I'm in. ;-) Muahahah!

    Btw... really could care less about what size other people are wearing. Like age, like weight... it's just a number. Doesn't mean much at all.
  • MissyMissy18
    MissyMissy18 Posts: 315 Member
    true, clothing sizes vary a lot by brand (and even sometimes within a brand)... but I think most women have a pretty good sense of what their "size" is. for dress/pant sizes I range between 6-10... I split the difference and say I'm a size 8. I think by looking at me most people would agree that sounds about right. Then again, most people probably don't give a hoot.

    Is this issue really worth such petty anger?
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
    (this, by the way men, is why we are all neurotic about our weight… don’t blame us, don’t even blame supermodels in the media. No, blame our ridiculous clothing sizes and our apparently mathematically challenged designers.)

    I'm not buying the blame game...

    I have a 32 inch waist measured with a tape measure. Yet I have 31 shorts from one place, 32 slacks from another, 31 and 32 jeans from the SAME store, and 34 dress pants from yet another.

    It gets better. My chest is 42", and I have wide shoulders. I can't just buy a dress shirt that matches my neck/arm dimensions because shirts do not have separate waist measurements. The typical men's dress shirt that fits me in the shoulders, are built to take a waist anywhere from 38"-42", even some labelled "slim!" Which means there's anywhere from 6 to 10 inches of puddling fabric waving in the breeze, making me look that much fatter. It takes forever to try on a single good dress shirt, because they're usually locked up in those horrible packages with lots of pins, cardboard, and plastic. Now try doing that 10 times to find one that actually fits...

    It's mildly annoying, but somehow it doesn't make me neurotic. Heck, I like finding good clothes and don't give a crap about the number on the outside.
  • gaiareeves
    gaiareeves Posts: 292 Member
    I will brag about my size because I am damn proud of being this size.

    Although it's true that different stores vary from size to size, most people have a size that they 'generally' fit into. I don't know how it is over the pond, but that's how it is in the UK.

    Like I'm generally a size 10 (US 6). The really expensive boutique sort of stores tend to cut their clothes smaller, so I'm a 12 (8) in those, whereas some really cheapy stores cut their clothes bigger so I'm an 8 (4) in there.

    But overall I'm generally a 10. I worked damn hard to be 10. So damn, I'm gonna brag about being a 10.
  • runnermama81
    runnermama81 Posts: 388 Member
    I am a size 4.. I wear 4's in all my clothing and Size Small top in all my tops... Last time I checked, clothing was pretty universal if you only shop at a few places instead of every store you see.

    Not sure why the hell you having so many issues when it comes to shopping or get pissed when people brag about size, but I worked my butt off to get where I am.. so best you best believe I'm going to celebrate it.

    Also, I highly doubt you wear a 4 some days and then a 12/14 other days... that is a huge difference in size no matter how the clothes are cut. So unless you are getting really fat and then really skinny with in the course of like a day, you should be able to find one size and stick with it.

    GEESH!!! some people aren't happy unless they're mad, right?
  • mhankosk
    mhankosk Posts: 532 Member
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