What is a typical pant size for a woman whose 145 lb?

I'm 5'6" and I wear 8 to a 10.
Most 10's are too big though.

This is a really OLD thread but I'll chime in anyway because it's important to understand that body type matters a lot.

It seems like a common answer here is that women who weigh 145 are wearing size 8. However, I am 5'6" and 168 pounds and wearing size 8 (in several different brands). However, my body shape is strawberry (aka inverted triangle)....I have narrow hips, a small butt, and slender thighs. When I get to 145, I'll probably wear a size 4.

I have been 145 at several different times in my life (5'5"). I have been "skinny fat" (wore about a 12), average muscle/fat (wore about 10) and fit working out with heavy weights (wore about size 8). Bottom line - lift weights

Currently about 130-135 and wear a 4/6 in most items.

I am 5'2" and at 145 I was an 8.

Same here.

5'5" 147, Wear between a 4 and an 8. 4's tend to be in popular brands like Old Navy, Gap or Eddie Bauer. 8's in C of H or Hudson Jeans. 6's pretty much anywhere else (Talbots, Banana Republic, etc.) Of course there are always outliers.

I've always been "dense"... in other words, I weight a ton more than I look. Everyone's different. Instead of picking a weight, I'd pick a size. If I picked, say 125 lbs, as my goal weight, that would put me in a 0 or 00 and wouldn't be sustainable. I like food way too much for that.

Nice to see a thread continue, from 9-11-11. . . what the what?!? Can someone find a foot size question from 2009 and move it along like this?

I'm not down to145 yet, but when I was in the past it was about a size 5 for me. Very different from a lot of other responses because when I was 180 (before starting on MFP) I wore a 10 comfortably
Btw, I am 5'2.5"

Way back when In high school I was 150 and wore a size 10 ( I'm 5'5) My 13 year old daughter is 140lb and 5ft4, she wears a size 4! It's crazy to see how truly different we all are! I really enjoyed everyone's posts

Vanity sizing is just getting out of control these days. I'm 228 pounds and wear a size 16. When I was 185 pounds and inches smaller i wore a 16 too.

Back when I was 140 I was a size 10, but with vanity sizing these days that might end up being much smaller.

There's generally less vanity sizing with more expensive clothes, too.

5'5 size 6

Depends. Are you a muscular and trim 145? Or a skinny fat 145?

I was a pants size 7 and height 5'4. I was OK with my weight then. Need to go back . I need 35 lbs to drop since my tremendous pregnancy weight gain

Nice necro. Actually I mean that as a compliment because there's something to be gained from this thread.

I love this image. It shows several women who are all 150 lbs.



In America, the sizing standards have been adjusted several times over the last 80 years because they want to make clothing that *most* women can buy. They're interested in selling clothes. I'm not saying vanity sizing isn't real; what I mean is that the government, private, and ASTM standards have changed significantly so you cannot compare clothing sizes directly without consulting the change to say whether an item is "vanity" sized or follows the ASTM rules.

There were significant problems with the way clothing sizes were standardized for women in the 1930s by Woolworth's. This standard was revised in the 1950s by the Department of commerce but relied (as did the 1930s sample) almost entirely on poor white women.. who wore corsets!. Obviously this was a serious problem for clothing fit not long after as the corset went into the annals of fashion history.

It was revised again in 1971, but this time they used women in the military (and we all know highly athletic 18-21 year olds are a widely representative sample!). Thus standard sizes remained problematic as many women simply didn't fit clothing well. The 1995 revision corrected some of those problems and the 2011 revision included women of more than one ethnicity for the first time ever. Sizing for women's clothing is challenging because we have a lot more variation in our body shapes than men do, and most clothing manufacturers choose one body type that they will design for. And then you add onto that deliberately "sizing down" clothes and you have what is the well-known guesswork of women's clothing. Or just randomly sizing things as this wonderful image from the New York Times (April 2011) shows:




This is not a uniquely American problem. In 2008, the government of Spain surveyed and measured thousands of women and determined that a full 40% of the women had difficulty purchasing any clothes due to the rigid sizing and exclusionary shape of the standards.

Some interesting reading:

"Sizing Up America" (New York Times, March 2004)
"Why Clothing Sizes Make No Sense" (Slate, January 2012)

So... anywhere between a size 4 to a 14. Hope that was helpful

At 145 I was a size 6. I'm 5'8 and have a "spread out evenly" type of build.