How much do you weigh & What size do you wear? Vanity Sizing?

[Anonymous]

5'6" 160 lbs Size 10-12.

[Anonymous]

5'7" 145 lbs, wear a size 8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You also have to realize (my grandmother told me this the other day) that sizes 0, 2, & 4 didn't exist back in the day. 6 was 0, 8 was 2, 10 was 4, 12 was 6 and so on.

My memory is a little foggy, but I don't even remember much below size 4 back in the 80s. Back when I was tiny. But then again, a lot of clothes were really baggy back then?

I think that sizing has shifted even in the last few years, at least at Ann Taylor. I'm wearing a size smaller than I was 3 years ago, but I also weigh 5-10 lbs more.

[Anonymous]

5'11'', 132lbs, size 4

[Anonymous]

5'2", 116lbs, size 3 (muffin top is to blame for large size)

[Anonymous]

5'6"
147
size 6 top and dress
size 8 pants

[Anonymous]

5'4, 127 lbs, size 4

[Anonymous]

5'5" 132, Size 6 most places but Size 4 or even 2 (!!!) at Old Navy. ON stuff is huge. I am NOT a size 4, much less a size 2.

[Anonymous]

5'8" 192 Size 14. Working on it. My closet has every size from 10-16 in it.

[Anonymous]

5'4 and 131 lbs. Size 4.

[Anonymous]

5'6'', 120lbs, size 2 bottoms and xs tops. I'm 38 this year. I'm what most people would call slim, but it doesn't change the fact that it's all flabby down there and my upper knees are horrible. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

5'9, 200 Big frame, apple shape, thin legs= 18 (or a big 16). At 168 I wore a 14.

[Anonymous]

5'7", 98lbs, size 00/0 depending on the brand - the 00/0 from many brands is too large. I generally have to stick to clothes from the Junior's section, but even those run large depending where I'm shopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who cares about "vanity" sizing--it's all just arbitrary anyway. You may as well wear size 'A, B, C' or "yellow, red and blue.'

I think this is just a bunch of carping from thin women who want to make heavier women feel shittier than about themselves than they already do. I seriously doubt that fit, average height women are having a hard time finding stylish clothing that fits them well. Most overweight women find shopping a misery.

Also, some of the PPs don't seem to realize that being short does not mean you wear a smaller size. Being short means you wear petite sizes, which are cut for shorter women (generally 5'4" and under). Pant lengths are shorter, arm holes are cut higher, pockets and trim are placed in proportion to the shorter torso. Petite sizes are often a size smaller, so a size 8 regular is a size 6 petite, but not always.

This is such B.S. Some of us are talking about the fact that clothes have become so supersized that we can not find anything that fits. Get it? I can not find clothes that fit me anymore unless I want to buy skanky cheap clothes at some junior's store at a suburban mall. OK? I am a middle-aged woman and it's ridiculous that I can't even wear size 0 petite anymore. I do not want to shop in the children's section or with my daughter's friends at Forever 21.

But most of the people on this thread weigh around 150 pounds and are around a size 8-12. Vanity sizing for most people just means a different number of the label. Most people can find clothes perfectly easily. If the American public has gotten fatter and is no longer catering to your size, why is that my fault (as someone who is plus size?) Also, amazing stores like Zara and tons of amazing European brands are cut extra small.

[Anonymous]

5'10 139 lbs size 6. I can remember back in the day, size 6 was a benchmark for models. And while I'm slimish, I sure as hell ain't model thin. Things have definitely changed.

I've previously read that the average 34 waist jeans for men are actually more like 38.

Just look at movies from the 80s, and it's so clear that as a nation we are so much fatter than 20 or 30 years ago. Maybe we'd be a bit slimmer if we had to face a reality.