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Started by SMP1704, February 13, 2007, 21:57:26

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SMP1704

Just thinking out loud really.  Heard on the news that a dress size 0 equates to a UK size 4 and the reporter held up a pair of jeans and said in a shocked tone, "these only have a 23" waist".

Well now, BC (before children) my waist ranged from 22 - 24" and I was a size 8/10.  True 22" did make me look a bit scrawny, but the point is now I am a size 12 but if there has been dress size inflation to this extent, that must mean that in 'old money' I am really a 16.

Thoroughly depressed by that thought -sigh

Off to go an smash the scales, they have been lying :'( :'(
Sharon
www.lifeonalondonplot.com

Hyacinth

Cheer up! My understanding is that sizing has gone the other way...as peeps have got bigger generally, the dress sizes are marked smaller? Pretty sure that a US size 0 was a UK size 8.....my DIL in the US used to be 8 (or 0)  and even AC (after children!) her actual size hasn't altered....I know, makes you sick, doesn't it. Still, wait til middle-aged spread hits her (evil grin)

SMP1704

That's my point Lish - I am MUCH bigger than I thought I was, but the label still says 12 :'( :'(
Sharon
www.lifeonalondonplot.com

carolinej

My figure is an 'O................ no, I cant be THAT heavy!' :o :o

cj :)

emmy1978

I thought US 0 equated to a size 4 UK. Size 8 isn't exactly new shocking news is it? Like you, pre babes was a skinny little bird in size 8 jeans but even if they'd do up around my waist they wouldn't get over my legs!!!!
Don't throw paper away. There is no away.

tabbycat

Me too - BC, I was a size 8/10, now size 12.

Have seen shops selling size 6 and have wondered who the h*ll, apart from skinny, younger teenagers, wears them. There's no way that a size 6 now equals a size 8 then - it's much too small. I couldn't have worn a size 6 even in my skinny minnie days. I think they've mucked around with the sizes further up the scale so that garments are larger (& we think we're smaller  :-\) and also created new & tinier sizes - just to make the "still a skinny minnie" brigade really smug.

I've now got a 28" waist, used to have 22/24", but am now wearing size 12", sometimes even size 10. How can I have gone up 4" and only moved one dress size? They are messing with our heads!

(I blame the chocolate manufactures - as long as we're still size 12, it's OK to eat another bar  ;))

Tabbycat

Emagggie

The good news is that 51% of the female population in Britain wear size 16 and above ;D. Off to Moda in B'ham this weekend to drool over stuff I couldn't get my 'ample' 12 into even with a shoe horn. ;D
Smile, it confuses people.

Carol

I am a size 10/12 now, depends on the cut of the clothes. The clothes from NEXT tho has been going up a size to a 14. Their tops are not like the other High Street shops.  I never thought I would see the day when I was this size because I have been thin or painfully thin most of my adult life.  I have never had the pleasure of BC.  I struggled with my low weight and hated being so thin.  Advancing years have seen the weight going on but not too much and according to the charts my weight is acceptable for my height.   

Amazin

Back in the black and white days, I clearly remember a size 10 was a 22" waist, size 12 was 24", and so on.

Fair play to the manufacturers though - people who were size 12 twenty years ago can still be a size 12 today - different measurement of course, but who the hell wants to read the small print? Psychologically, it's a stroke of marketing genius!    ;D

Incidentally, re size BC v. size AD (after delivery), I've never really thought that's a waistline problem as such - more of an upholstery issue!    ::)

Lesson for life:
1. Breathe in     2. Breathe out     3. Repeat

emmy1978

Try going in Miss Selfridge and finding you've gone up a whole shoe size! My size 4 everywhere else is a 5 in there! Am only 5' tall and would love to know why I pay more for 'petite' ranges! Less fabric, more money?
Don't throw paper away. There is no away.

Grandma

You lot don't know how lucky you are having a 'size' at all! At the last reckoning I was a 14 bum, a 16 tum and a 12 around the boobles.  ??? (When I got married  I had to have my wedding dress made as nothing off-the-peg was made to fit a 5' 1" female with a 31-21-31 figure! ;D) So, girls, enjoy being whatever size you are and watch it - cos the blubber sneaks up on you when you're least expecting it. ::)

carolinej

Its a shame that we all have to worry about our size just because of fashion. A few hundred years ago, I think it was the time of the painter Reubens(she says, trying to sound intellectual :o) it was fashionable to be fat. Just look at the old paintings of naked ladies. Who knows, it may get back like that one day, and then I wont have to feel bad about myself because I dont have to avoid drains incase I fall down them!

cj :)

Blue Bird

Oh come on girls I am a size 20 - 22 and proud of it - and feel that we should not be worried about the size of the woman but the soul of the woman

and as a Nana who wants a skinny Granny to cuddle into ???

Pre my babies I was a size 16   36 D and Twiggy was all the rage then

Do men really like skin and bone ??? ??? ???




Grandma

You're so right, Blue Bird - Grandmas have a duty to be cuddly! Lots of hugs  xxx

MrsKP

the only thing i know is that a Next 10 Regular fits me.  A George 10 Standard is too long ! 

I know when I feel lumpy and when I've over done it so then I stop, but what does grate on me is when the 4' 6" loud mouth in the office moans about how fat she is and then eats all day !  you wanna lose weight ?  stop eating. 

I'd rather people were happier in themselves so that a clothes size didn't matter.

As long as you're reasonably healthy and not putting a huge strain on your heart, the cuddlier the better as far as i'm concerned.

;D
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cambourne7

blue bird i am with you depending on the fit i am anything from an 18 to a 26!

sizes dont work here!!

Blue Bird

What gets me very cross is people think that thin means fit - well I disagree you see just as many thin people in doctors waiting rooms as the Fluffy ones

I am fit to do what I do and am happy to say the last time I was in need of medication it was for a hysterectomy which had nothing to do with my size and was 23 years ago

I regularly have check ups with the well woman clinic and have not problems although my mother who was never bigger than a size 8, and at my age was always poorly (she did smoke 20 a day and that is something I have never done)

The strain on the internal organs of these young girls must be a worry and if ever they became ill what reserves have they got??

But I do blame the media for all the pressure that is put on young women >:(

MrsKP

i blame the media for a lot of things  ::)

but agree with you bluebird thin should definitely not be automatically assumed to be fit.  There are extremes of both up here and you wonder when both sets are going to keel over.
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theothermarg

I,m a 16 in modern jeans because the waistbands are lower and supposed to sit on the hips and are wider. I havn,t got a waist and where it was is very low
so i hope the fashion never changes. if waisted jeans come back I,ll have to give them up or get them from charity shops
margaret
Tell me and I,ll forget
Show me and I might remember
Involve me and I,ll understand

saddad

I'm 6' and almost 11 stone... OH had a waistline i could span, all the way round, BC
she has ghot a bit bigger, but I agree why do petite pay more?
;D

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