What do you consider YOUR perfect size?

Are you in the UK? Have you ever actually seen a size 4? I have lived here all my life and not ever, not once seen a size 4 anything for sale. Ever.

TK Maxx. Asda. They exist.

I can't say I have ever been to Asda, but none of the TK Maxx stores I have been to do a 4. None of the designers in Selfridges or Harrods or any of the major London dept stores do a 4. In anything. A UK 6 is a US 0. My little sister wears a UK 6, and finds it very hard to find clothes. In the States she buys a 0 or even 00.

I was happiest in a US 6 or 8, however this time around my goal is to be much more toned.

I would like to be a US 4-6. But would also be happy with an 8.

My initial goal is to get back to how I looked when I was 18.

I was about 18 stone there.

When I was 16, I was about 16 stone and looked like this:


I currently look like this:


So for now, my ideal goal is to hit around 18st - then see if I can get it down to 15st - depends on how I look and feel.

PS - That is hairotica (my Wife) next to me

I am 5'6 and pear shaped. My initial goal was a "perfect 10 (UK)", but that sort of doesn't work on a pear. I am completely content with my UK8 top and UK10 bottoms.

However, I was ECSTATIC the other day when I had to exchange a UK10 for a UK8 because it was too big!! I think it may have just been the cut of the shorts, but it has changed my perception a bit, maybe, one day with some toning, I could be a UK8 at the bottom too...

Anyone else who found themselves with the wrong size perception? It took me a while to even realise that a 10 top is too big for me now, my boyfriend had to point it out.

I think it's encouraging that so many have met and even surpassed their goals, congratulations on the HARD WORK!!

Anyone else who found themselves with the wrong size perception? It took me a while to even realise that a 10 top is too big for me now, my boyfriend had to point it out.

Yes, I had that problem a couple of months ago. I kept buying pants that were too big, and I didn't realize it until I went into a store one day, and they estimated that I was 2 sizes smaller than the pants I was wearing at the time. I just thought they weren't very good at guessing sizes, but I tried on the pants they suggested, and they were right.

It's funny because I'll also find a top that I really like and wear it for a month or two, and then it starts to look weird on me, and I can't figure out why. Then I realize it's because it's too big. I'm finally getting the hang of buying my current size and a size smaller when I find something I really, really like, especially jeans.

How many sizes bigger/smaller is an American size compared to a UK size? x

1-2x bigger.

So a size 6 in Canada is = 8-10 UK.

I know this is what clothes companies say, but it's actually more like 2-3 sizes. When I am a 10 (at 22-27) I am a US 5 in most brands, 6 in some. I would say a 6 is a large 10. Nowhere near a UK 8. A US size zero is a UK 6, which is the smallest size there is here.

It's kind of funny how sizes start at a 6 in the UK, who started that? Seems silly to ignore 0-6. Then again, wonder what size North American sizes first started with? Macy's history info anyone? Surely they never started with a 0. Size 0 and 00 have only existed in the last few years, at very most 10yrs so does that mean XS people didn't exist in 1960? I think the sizing movement towards xs and xxs at least in Canada is due to immigration over the past 20 years. Asian countries are the largest portion of immigrants and with much smaller builds, I would presume the clothing manufacturers just adapted. That and girls are dressing older and older for their age. Girls age 12-14 can be found in Stitches trying on club-wear and super-mini's and due to their frame they are size 0's.

The sizes have got bigger. In the 60s a UK 10 had a 24 inch waist, now a 10 is a 28 or even 30 inch waist, and a 24 inch waist is a size 6 (US 0). I have noticed it even in the last 10 years. I was a size 10 at 18 with a 25/27 inch waist (depending on what I had just eaten!), and am a 10 now with a 29 inch waist. I don't fit the clothes I wore at 22, even though they say the same size. I do fit the clothes I wore at 27, though (pre babies), which is good enough for me!

This, and sizing in general is just all over the place!

I have a friend who is 5'5 and 104 lbs, so very slender. She came to visit me in the US, and we went to a store with small sizing (i.e. I would normally wear 1-2 sizes larger) and she fit into a pair of size 0 jeans!

So for her birthday last year, I ordered her a size 10 UK jacket she wanted... she actually had to return to the store and exchange it for a 12 UK. And she's quite narrow-framed/small-chested.

I bought four UK size 14 dresses last week. One fit perfectly, and this was a brand that is normally 'small'. Woo! But... then I tried on the others. One was fine in the waist/hips but obviously made for someone with a chest the same size as their waist - completely flattened my top half. One fit okay, but the top was a little too loose, and so I returned it. The last was TINY! I actually doubt my friend would've been able to fit in it. I managed to do the waist up (and I have a reasonably large waist), but the bust was for someone 4-6 inches smaller, and the hips - wow!

Tops I find very strange. Either they're ridiculously baggy (and I'm very top-heavy) or ridiculously tight (made for a boyish figure).

well my jeans has been size 18 for so long now im a 10.but i would love my perfect size to be a 8 .

Currently I'm a size 6 or 8, but ideally I'd like to be back to a size 4. That was the size I was before having children. I wasn't even in shape at that time, so possibly even a 2. It's been about a decade since I've been a size 2!

I have no freaking clue anymore! I'm 5'8.5" and haven't been smaller than a US size 9 in the past decade. Depending on my level of exercise, I can be a size 7 at 145lbs or a size 9 if I'm a little more squishy. So I'm guessing a 6/7 at my goal weight and toned?