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Women's clothing fitting
fohat.digs:
--- Quote from: suicidal_orange on Mon, 25 July 2022, 03:54:05 ---
Of course you may be big because you live in the gym or have giant genes but surely you know if you're "corpulent".
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I am a little over 6 feet (1.85 m) and about 225 lb (100 kg / 16 stone) and in decently good health for my age, so I don't think of myself as too far outside of the norm for a modern American male. And I like for my clothes to fit loosely. I am perhaps 5% larger than my father and almost exactly the same size as his grandfather (my grandfather was a small man).
Not that they care, but I doubt that I will ever buy any more clothes online from China, so it lost them a customer to not make a product that suits me. (I was going to say "fabricate" but I can't seem to avoid clothing-esque puns). As for the shrinkage, that doesn't apply here because these are some strange (almost slimy) artificial fabric that I find very uncomfortable.
suicidal_orange:
--- Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 25 July 2022, 07:38:37 ---I am a little over 6 feet (1.85 m) and about 225 lb (100 kg / 16 stone) and in decently good health for my age, so I don't think of myself as too far outside of the norm for a modern American male.
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That was meant as a general "you" aimed at "people's fear of corpulence", didn't mean to question your size. But as you mention it you're a bit taller than me and 33% heavier - easily done as I'm small boned and it looks like I only do leg day at the gym (30" waist and can wear a medium shirt but have to buy large for the length) If you're only adding the 2 because you like a loose fit then I agree, you're the big end of average. You know that and that was my point - if I needed an XL shirt I'd know I had a problem, even though it's a perfectly normal size :thumb:
Leslieann:
--- Quote from: suicidal_orange on Sun, 24 July 2022, 10:54:06 ---]I don't understand why womens clothes sizing uses exclusively even numbers, nor why the US scale starts at 0 and the UK's at 6 when everything else quite reasonably starts at 1 and I don't think I want to - hence asking about "fitting" rather than "sizing".
The only way your example works is if one is a UK 12 and the other a US 4 - drop 1 size same as men then shift 3? Surely no-one is stupid enough to buy at a shop because they can fit in a size 4 when everywhere else they're a 12, they might get away with one size but definitely not four.
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It's called vanity sizing.
Some women are INSANE about sizes, storming out of stores for being told even their size may be larger than they want. Shoe stores are even known for swapping boxes and labels in order to make these people happy. Would you want to be a minimum wager worker and having to tell Karen-zilla that she's no longer a size 6 shoe but instead a size 9?
Some companies have noticed this and decided to capitalize on it by changing the numbers just to make the women happy, now she can proudly boast how she's "the same size I was in high school!"
suicidal_orange:
--- Quote from: Leslieann on Mon, 25 July 2022, 17:40:40 ---
--- Quote from: suicidal_orange on Sun, 24 July 2022, 10:54:06 ---Surely no-one is stupid enough to buy at a shop because they can fit in a size 4 when everywhere else they're a 12, they might get away with one size but definitely not four.
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It's called vanity sizing.
Some women are INSANE about sizes, storming out of stores for being told even their size may be larger than they want.
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Please see above - they know and everyone they know knows, it's stupid and pathetic and I would have no problem saying so (and no doubt getting fired for it)
Sounds like the best way to do it is to print the label at time of purchase - that way you can also sell a "size 4" dress to an anorexic person to "prove" they're still "fat" too. After all this is all about short term profit, you can't shift the scale every generation and if you did Karen won't want to admit her feet shrank because that happens to old people so she'd have to shop elsewhere.
jamster:
--- Quote from: suicidal_orange on Sat, 23 July 2022, 16:10:17 ---Seller sent an offer of 33% off, I am now the proud owner of a bright pink jacket that may or may not fit :confused:
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You realise that this now needs to be followed up with a photo?
On the odd occasion I've tried womens stuff on before. It's all over the place- weirdly loose, weirdly tight, but sometimes it fits better than the mens version.
--- Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 24 July 2022, 21:51:15 ---In china they don't use dryers, so generally cloths are cut smaller because they don't shrink when they sundry them, vs the way we put them in dryers.
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This is more randomly made up rubbish.
(Written from China)
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