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Originally Posted by lumifan4ever
Okay....so i was on wal-marts website looking at clearanced clothes. I was checking out the sizing chart. According to the measurements i take at home, I wear a size 10 shirt, a size 16 pants in the waist and a size 8 pants in the hips!!!! How crazy is that????? Maybe i am measuring my waist wrong. The size 8 pants that i am wearing now are a 33 inch waist. They are not too snug, they are not too loose. They fit just perfect around my belly button. But when i measure my belly button at home, i get about a 36 or 36 1/2 (depending on where the tape measure falls across my back). Should i probably be pulling the tape measure a little tighter or go ahead and consider my waist in clothing to be a 33 inch waist??? I'm so confused. And still with a 33 inch waist, it says i should be a size 16?!?!? If that's so...how can i be wearing a size 8 pants?????
Whoa...slow down!
I am a costume maker/seamstress part time, and your measurements don't sound way off. Honestly, it sounds like you are an "apple" figure type, meaning that you are thicker through the chest and the waistline, and smaller in the legs and hips. Is this true?
Clothing is made for the hourglass figure, or someone whose waist is defined and smaller than their hips. Most hourglasses have a waist that is 8-12" smaller than their hips.
If you are an apple figure type, then you don't have much of a defined waistline.
A pear figure is the opposite of yours. They are larger on the bottom half, so they might wear a 10 top, and a 12 or 14 jeans. You are larger on top than on bottom-an apple.
Most jeans don't fit at your natural waist-so the measurment of the top of your jeans is NOT going to be the same as your waist measurement. My jeans fit just below my belly button, while my actual waist is a little above my belly button-so my waistline is smaller than the top of my jeans. (I'm hourglass.)
Wear what fits. If you wear jeans that fit below your natural waistline, then use your hip measurement for your jeans. (size 8) Since the pants don't actually sit on your waist anyway in most people-the hip measurement is what you are after.