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Originally Posted by Alicia87
That's soo frustrating! They really need to standardize sizes for women...while yes it's nice to be able to wear the "smaller" sizes, it'd be even nicer if I could walk into any given store and know what my size is! Even if it's a 14 or whatever, so long as I know where I'm at.
Side note - my nieces for the longest time thought you wore whatever age you were because their ages tended to coincide with their sizes for a while lol
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Actually, I'm pretty happy they don't have standard sizes! The reason being is that I'm pretty curvy (30H/28HH bra size, normally wear Levi's Supreme Curve Jeans) so standard sizing wouldn't allow for clothes that fit women with different proportions!
That being said, it would be nice if the clothing sizes were based off of your waist measurement, so a 31 would be for someone with a 31" waist. Then the bust/hips could be set according to whatever that particular manufacturer defined as their fit model. Actually, ideally, they'd list the measurements (or more like the range of measurements, especially for stretchy clothes) that correspond to that article of clothing. The sizes are so arbitrary anyways that they don't mean much!
Then again, picking a waist measurement is also tricky because most pants don't fit at your natural waist so while Levi's might say something is a size 29 that really corresponds to 34-35" waistband because it's meant to sit on your hips (and they assume that your high hips are 5-6" larger than your waist). That means for people like me who have a small difference between their natural waist and high hip need to size down (3 sizes normally!) whereas someone with a large difference would need to size up.