Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 19:05     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
I was at 5'4 and 160 a few years ago and wore a 12. Not obese.

I'm now between 115 and 120 and wear a 2 or 4. I probably would have worn an 8 at 135 if that's where my weight had settled when I started eating better and actually exercising regularly. I would have been fine with that.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 20:21     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Anonymous wrote:At 5'4", a size 8 would be 150-160 lbs? 160lbs at 5'4" is BMI 27.5, overweight but not obese.


I’m 5’4, size 8 and 134 lbs. Not sure where you’re getting that 160 from.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 16:22     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Sorry - size 6 should be max regardless of body type. Really 4 or 2 depending on your frame; but 8 is pudgy zone.


Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 00:12     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I suppose I'm the only honest one here. At 5'4" you should be Size 2-4. I'm 5'4", mostly size 2, some size 0s, depending on the cut. I weight 124 and have a muscular frame.


Lol. I’m 5’4” with a 30 H bra size. The idea that I could ever fit in a size 2-4 anything is laughable. Petite is a proportion thing, not a weight thing.


I don’t think an archeologist looking at the bones of two 5’4” women who had a weight difference of 50 pounds would find that much difference in their structure. Petite is about height, not weight.


The proportion that is actually important for petite, is torso length, not height. Those are the difficult adjustments, hems are easy. A key to fit is underarms hitting at the correct level, waist placement, and rise in pants. A short woman with a long torso should buy regular clothes and have them hemmed. A short woman with a short torso should by petite clothes, and should find the hems pretty close to correct. Who knows if anthropologists care about these distinctions, but there is a physical difference that could be observed.


Hmm. Im 5'4" with a short torso, and though I often need petite tops, I usually can't wear petite pants. They are too short in both length and rise. The rise is an issue because my torso is short from my waist to my shoulders, whereas from waist to crotch I'm more standard in length.


I don't see the contradiction, you're a short torso, but not proportionately. Making a petite garment means, shorter distance high point shoulder to waist, shorter armholes, shorter rise, shorter hems. A petite fit model might fit all those points proportionately. But most people are like you, they are petite in places and not others, and it really isn't about height at all.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:26     Subject: Re:Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Anonymous wrote:I did not read the rest.
YES it is OP. I’m 5’4 and I know I’m chunky with water weight when I start sliding up from a 4 to a 6. A size 8 is probably technically obese for our height.


OMG Do you have one of those fun-house mirrors that distorts your body?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:22     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Anonymous wrote:It’s thick


Yes.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:17     Subject: Re:Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
I did not read the rest.
YES it is OP. I’m 5’4 and I know I’m chunky with water weight when I start sliding up from a 4 to a 6. A size 8 is probably technically obese for our height.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:16     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Anonymous wrote:Yes. I suppose I'm the only honest one here. At 5'4" you should be Size 2-4. I'm 5'4", mostly size 2, some size 0s, depending on the cut. I weight 124 and have a muscular frame.


Oh stop it. That's your body. Other bodies are different.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:16     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
Anonymous wrote:Yes you want to stay size 2 or smaller for that height


What. I am 5'3" and at my smallest, weighing 110 lbs, I wore a size 6.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 21:15     Subject: Is size 8 at 5'4" heavy?
No. At my smallest in my 20s I was a 6 and I was very thin.