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[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]

So true!  My sizes are a mess and I basically have to try everything on before I buy.  I’m 5’4”, 110lbs, but a 32H.  Tailoring is everything![/quote]

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