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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For goodness sake, my BMI is 25 and I’m a size 8. What world are people living in?[/quote]

8 is a 14 of non vanity sizes. [/quote]

No it is not. I also have size 8 clothes from 20 years ago and they still fit. [/quote]

So…from 2004? I have vintage wool skirt suits from the 1960s. They are size 8s and have a 26” waist. That is not vanity sizing. I generally wear a modern size 2. [/quote]

Yeah…most vintage patterns only go down to size 6.  When I compare measurement equivalents, that’s about a size 0 today [/quote]

NP (and I wear a modern size 2 as well, if that matters to you), but so what? Sizing has changed. If your definition of “vanity sizing” is standard mall sizing since at least 2004, I think there’s a good argument that women’s sizing in the US has just changed. It’s not really vanity sizing anymore, except relative to runway sizing (which is not relevant to the vast majority of the women in this country). You just reached back to the 1960s to find size 8 garments with the same measurements as today’s size 2. That was 60(!) years ago. Things change.[/quote]

But the correct size for a healthy human body doesn’t change in just 60 years! If you are arguing that “oh, I’m a size 8 so my waist measurement and weight must be heathy” based on some outdated idea that a size 8 is average, then you are misguided. A modern size 8 is worn by overweight women if you are an average height. [/quote]

I agree to some extent - I’m 5’4” and feel very uncomfortable and chubby over 130 lbs, which is generally a mall size 4-6. But female bodies are also more diverse now than they were 60 years ago. Yes, part of that is that more of the population is overweight, but part is just different phenotypes. Some women just have more bulky or muscular builds, fat aside. They just wouldn’t be able to fit into a size 2/4 because of their bone structure. So I don’t think wearing a modern 8 automatically means someone is overweight. [/quote]

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