UK clothing shops

George size 14 jeans a bit big although 12's too small. M&S size 14 cut me in half...... There's never any consistency!

Yeah they do a range called asos curve, not too expensive and has some really nice stuff!

H&M are terrible! I'm a comfortable 12 now, but a lot of their size 16 shorts are too small for me. I tried on some trousers recently - a 14 were massive and baggy, wouldn't stay up; a 12 were so small I couldn't get them past my thighs.

I don't trust the sizing in any shops really, if I like something I'll try on the one that looks like it will fit, plus a size either side. Department stores seem the worst for vanity sizing.

I find that next is true to size and have loads of their stuff! cant get into topshop trousers/jeans in my size and i will not get the next size up. Primark stuff is small but i dont buy much stuff there!

new look is so bad for bottoms for me. they are always too big round my hips and too baggy on the bum and vice versa. i needed some cheap black trousers so went to matalan. i am a 12-14 but i had to buy a 16, yes 16. i was so disgusted. they really need to get their sizes right. h&m are also weird. i went to try on a pair of shorts a few weeks ago. neither a 12 or 14 fitted. so confused!

My favourite shops for true to size clothing is Next, Matalan and Dorothy Perkins, I can wear size 10 no problem.

Peacocks are too big, I wear an 8 from them and I am not an 8. I have a size 8 pair of jeans and they literally fall off me! No good!

New Look, Topshop, Internacionale, Miss Selfridge, Primark etc. I generally go a size or two up because they are tiny clothes. But if you think of their main target market it's not unrealistic to them and they still make lots of money!

I've just learnt I need to try everything on before I buy it! It makes shopping longer but it's less painful that taking a size home that doesn't fit! :P

Primark sizing is ridiculous I have a pair of size 18 trousers which fall off me, and two pairs of shorts (both the same just different colours) one pair I can barely do up the other pair are baggy...both are an 18. Oh and I have a size 14 cardigan which is too big.

George at Asda - the trousers seem to sit really high and are always too tight around my legs but massive in the waist

Can't think of anywhere else at the moment...I haven't been clothes shopping for a while!

According to most of the shops' size guides I'm a 12, but I have everything from a 12 to an 8 in my wardrobe currently. It's ridiculous. I know I'm a 12, and yet half of my clothes are too big. Waste of money. I wish brands and shops would at least stay consistent, I look at two tops from one brand and they're the same size label and yet completely different. It's maddening.
People blame vanity sizing, but if it was vanity sizing it'd be consistent, no?

I buy most of my clothes in store now - I have to. I need to take two or three sizes to try. I'm an agoraphobe as well so it's very annoying!

According to that guideline I am a 12 or a 14, which is about right.

I like Oasis, and my size 16 jeans from there are falling down on me so I have a belt! I've got a couple of French Connection size 14 linen dresses which fit me nicely. My Dorothy Perkins vest tops are all size 12. I tried on a size 12 Miss Selfridge skirt and it fit!

My goal trousers are all size 12, which I used to be. My US size 8 Abercrombie and Fitch trousers do up easily but are just that bit tight, whereas I can't quite do up my French Connection size 12 trousers yet.

Last week I tried a skirt on in H&M in a size 12 which fit but was a bit snug, so I purchased it in a size 14, took it home, and there is virtually no difference in size :huh:

I can wear anything from a size 12 - 16 in H&M (and I do as I love their clothes). New Look and Primark are also a bit hit and miss. I buy my jeans from Gap, but I can buy the same size and cut of jeans and they fit differently (the length can be a bit off too). Monsoon, Dorothy Perkins & M&S come up big on me, but Next, Hobbs & Phase 8 fit well.

i used to work in a knitwear factory making clothing for m&s, we used to get the garments in dozen bags and they were all supposedly the same size but you can bet at least half the bag was either bigger or smaller than it was supposed to be, when they went for the final press before being bagged up and sent to the shops they were put on a sizing frame and shrunk to fit (or stretched if needed), in theory this was supposed to make the sizing uniform, in reality it made not one bit of difference lol

i have 2 pairs of skinny jeans from new look exactly the same type, colour, style, bought on the same week, one is a 16 and falls literally to my knees unless wear a belt pulled tight, they then look oddly bunched up, the other is a 14 which are at least 2 inches off fastening

you just cant trust sizes at all

I have real trouble finding clothes to fit properly. Long body, short legs (really short, 29in inside leg) The 'petites' sections seem to be a little more consistent with sizing but in TopShop Im a 16, Dorothy Perkins Im a 14, H&M 12/14, Tesco 12 and George at ASDA is a no go because nothing fits right! Waists on dresses are too high for my body and the trousers end up with the crotch at my knees or legs are way too long lol

i used to work in a knitwear factory making clothing for m&s, we used to get the garments in dozen bags and they were all supposedly the same size but you can bet at least half the bag was either bigger or smaller than it was supposed to be, when they went for the final press before being bagged up and sent to the shops they were put on a sizing frame and shrunk to fit (or stretched if needed), in theory this was supposed to make the sizing uniform, in reality it made not one bit of difference lol

i have 2 pairs of skinny jeans from new look exactly the same type, colour, style, bought on the same week, one is a 16 and falls literally to my knees unless wear a belt pulled tight, they then look oddly bunched up, the other is a 14 which are at least 2 inches off fastening

you just cant trust sizes at all

maybe they can shrink me lol

I have a pair of size 8 jeans from River Island and a pair of size 14 jeans from Topshop. Placed ontop of each other they are the same. They are the same style and fit the same too. Its ridiculous!