I lived in India for my teenage life and I am used to jeans and pants being sold based on inches and can't seem to wrap my head around the system here. I know that I had a 28-30 inch waist there and my hips were 34-36 and I was wondering what that would be here?
Plus I went to target and fit into a size 10 Reg and was wondering about how many lbs do you need to loose to go from one size to another? Trying to see when I can try on an 8. Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

it depends on the person. I can drop a ton of weight, but only go down one pant size because I'm tall and have big bones. Another person can shed the pounds and also go down several sizes. Once your size 10 pants start feeling loose, try the 8.

It is hard to say, sizes and people vary so much. I would think you'd be well into an 8 by now. My waist is 30 and my hips 38 and I wear 6-8. Wish I could be more help, but I just have a knack of knowing if something is going to fit me just by looking at it....I call it my superpower.

That is really helpful... I WAS a 28-30 inches I was just trying to gauge what was my pant size when I was my normal weight before my baby. Now I am bigger.

Yay this is a topic I totally know. I work for a women’s clothing company and I get to see the typical measurements. It all depends on where you want to wear your pants. If you tend to wear Denim they would be 1 ¼” below natural waist, so the top of waist circumference33 ½” for size 8, 34 ½” for size 10, but then again it all depends on the type of pant. I find Gap (I don’t work for them but one of their competitors) run truer to size. Gap and Ann Taylor Loft are running European sizes right now in store. So you can try there.

thanks Amanda I will try there next time I go out. Maybe in another 10 lbs I will be closer to an 8.

I can't help much because I can't figure out my pant size either--it varies with each company. My natural waist is 27.5, lower waist around 30. The biggest measurement around my hips/rear is 38. I've been wearing 8's, or 9 in Junior sizing, but if I go to Sears it's a 6. But there's a compounding factor: my thighs! I think they're bigger than other woman with my vitals, 22" around my right leg--so if I want pants to fit loosely there I have to settle for 10s or 11s with big gaps at the waist.

tkm256 What confuses me is that some of them say 10 R but others say nothing. Does that automactically make them a juniors? And are misses something else or the same as junior. (pulling my hair out)

Misses and Juniors are different sizes.

I always thought 10R just meant regular - as in length.

I personally go down a size with about every 7 pounds lost
(I count Odd & even sizes too....Like 8,7,6,5,4,3,2, And so on)
So if it was me~It took me approx. 14 pounds to go from a size 10 to an 8

A good way to figure this is take your start weigh And deduct the now weight then divide it by how many sizes you have been through and that should give you an idea in other words since u have lost 26 pounds ~Divide that by how many sizes you have went through to get an approx. answer

I think 10R means regular length too...10L would be 10 long (longer length)....a 10P would mean petite (shorter length).

Junior sizes are odd numbers (..3,5,7,9,11,13..), whereas misses/women's sizes are even numbers (..2, 4, 6, 8, 10..). I find that misses/womens size pants fit me better. Juniors size pants sit lower on your hips...which makes me feel like every time I bed over, my @$$ is gonna fall out! lol

I never understood why they don't size womens pants using the waist/length measurements....apparently they do it everywhere else! And for guys!

Lori259- I lived in sweat pants since my daughter's birth and so I only have my jeans from before

Amba Dawn ok now its making a little more sense. I though R meant regular but I see that means length. You are right it is odd that it is this system and not inches. It would make it more uniform oh well now that I am equipt with this new knowledge I can say I am a 10 and need to get back to a 6.

You could also try Forever 21. They sell there pants according to inches. I have even seen pants sold in inches at some department stores.

the reason womens clothing is sold in numbers and not inches is because its all a mind game. i had to write a paper about this in college. when women were polled across the country and in various other countries they were happier with their results when purchasing sized pants versus pants sold in inches.