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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chest size matters a lot for these questions. People who are size 0 or 2 tend to be small chested, unless you are just looking at pant sizes. Once someone is a C cup or larger, you are going to be a 4/6 at a minimum (even in vanity sizing) regardless of your weight or height.

Same thing with shoulder width or hips. You can have a low weight but if your frame is structured a certain way, you will need to size up. I used to work in a department store and was always fighting this battle with customers. People have a mental block about certain sizes (for some people, that might be a size 8, for others it's anything 10 and up, for others it's anything in the plus range). Sometimes this is reasonable because some brands don't carry sizes past a certain size, so it's a desire to fit into more clothes (though that's thankfully changing). But sometimes it's just this weird vanity where people can't accept that a size 8 is going to fit them better because of their body shape, and don't understand that you have to fit clothes to the widest part of your body and then take them in to accommodate.

The one exception is tall women, who seem to get this very quickly. I think it's because tall women have been tall their whole lives, so they are more used to it. I'd have someone walk in who was quite trim but 5'10, and I'd say "let's try the 8 to see if get the length we want and then take in the waist" and they wouldn't blink. But then I'd encounter someone whose bust size had changed with pregnancy or who had only gained a small amount of weight but all in their hips, and they'd be adamant that they had to be a size 4 and disappointed if it didn't fit correctly. Why? What matters is getting it to fit your body properly. It's not like the size on the garment makes your body larger by osmosis. Your body is what it is, and then you just need to find the clothes that work best with it. [/quote]

Oh, and I wanted to mention: we also carried some UK brands that used UK sizing, where a size 6 is literally like the smallest size, more equivalent to a US 2. People would fuss about this and I'd have to reassure them. I remember discovering that I could explain that celebrities also wore these sizes. Like I could say "Nicole Kidman is also a size 6 in UK sizes!" And that would appease them. Just a lot of feelings about these numbers that don't really mean anything or have any value.[/quote]

Agree with all of this. I still hate UK sizing. Just spent the weekend shopping in London and will now be spending the rest of the week quietly weeping into my fish and chips.  I’m a US “6” but a solid UK 12…which is actually a true US 10.  I am 5’ 7” and 140lbs. [/quote]

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