Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! I can't stand the vanity sizing
Shopping is a pain to begin with, but then you never know what size you are in at any given store until you try EVERYTHING on! Could be a good work out I guess, but I don't go shopping to work out! THEN I think I'm a solid 18 and I try on some old jeans given to me and I can't fit into them..........and they are a size 18! From like 10 years ago
Frustrating to no end


Sorry needed to vent, I'm really disliking clothes at the moment!

I like it only for the reason that it has in effect extended the size range for misses sizes. Years ago most store didn't have a plus-size section, and misses sizes typically only went to 16, or very rarely 18 or 20. But some of the 20's I bought back then were much smaller than the size 16's I am wearing now. It is just much easier to find clothes that fit now than I remember it being years ago.

It would be absolutely LOVELY if there were some sort of universal size system, but I'm not holding my breath.

I believe in the meantime that I if I can stop attaching the size of my clothing to how I feel about myself then I can buy a pair of pants so matter what the tag says and be happy that they fit well, feel well, and flatter me. (It's the putting that into practice that will be difficult!)

I don't go by the tags much anymore, I'm pretty good at eyeballing the pants/dress whatever and just knowing if it's right.

My problem is with sleeve length and hem length, I guess I'm a pygmy or something because pants and sleeves are often ridiculously long. I shop in petites stores but they don't has as big of a selection.

I still have a pair of size fives I wore until the meds put all this weight on. I weighed 120 then. Will see how much I have to lose to get back into them and then see what size the stores say I wear. HA bet that size 5 turns into a size 0 with the way sizing is these days.

I had bought a pair of 4s from old navy and they turned out to be too big. I was frustrated so I looked that their online sizing chart. It claims to wear a size 4 you must have a 26" waist and 36" hips. Well Mine are not that small and the 4s were huge! I had to return them for 2s! I got the 2s and compared them to my junior 9s from another store and they were only slightly smaller. So now 2s equals size 7 or 8? What do you do if you're short??? Do you have to shop in the little girls department? it's out of control!

It's crazy! I was doing laundry today and I have a pair of old navy 14s from ... oh... 6 years ago? (I hate throwing clothes away!). They fit me VERY WELL. almost a little snug, i avoid them during my tom when i'm bloated. i have another pair of old navy 14s that I bought off the clearance rack about a year ago.. supposed to be the SAME pant, same style, cut, material, etc. They're HUGE on me. if they hadn't been $5 I would have returned them. I wear them anyway, on laundry day and such.
I took the older pair and lay them on top of the new pair...the newer pair is easily 2" bigger in the waist!! so THEN I took out a pair of size 16 dockers.. slightly different cut (at waist as opposed to just below waist) but they were ALSO smaller than the new old navy 14s.. just a little.. 1/2 inch or so.
when I was 18 I wore a size 9 pant, my waist was like 25" I THINK. I wore everything big so i'm not sure what my true size was back then.
I look at old navy size charts now and that's a size 2 - XS. I have never ever been smaller than a medium that I know of! oh, and according to their charts, i'm a 16/18 now.. if that's the case why are the 14s so darn big!!
this is why i HATE shopping!!