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My wife gets so fumed that she leaves the store in disgust, but walks right in to the next one. but what can we do when no one makes anything in the US anymore..
I think the reasoning behind vanity sizing must be that companies believe (and perhaps have been able to show) that we are more likely to buy articles labelled with a smaller size. I think that's possibly true (in general) and definitely ridiculous, so I object strongly to the vanity sizing as undercover sizeism. Also, it just makes life inconvenient.
Also, if smaller labelled sizes keep providing more room, what will really thin people wear? -4s?
No, they've already started doing things like 00 for smaller-than-0, I guess! For the -4 size ladies, they'll be 0000. If I ever saw that, I'd add a 1 in front of those 0s so they'd wear a size 1,000. Ha.
Years ago when I bought my wedding dress, it was labelled a size 8 although I wore a size 10. The sales lady explained to me that wedding gowns are always labelled a smaller size so that brides can brag about wearing a size X on their wedding day. (But doesn't that make it look worse when the married lady can no longer wear size X?)
yeah it's ridiculous. I hate to shop and would much rather do it online than go to a store. With every store sizing stuff a different way, i have to go in and try on 6 pairs of pants before one fits. reductio ad absurdum fer shure.
Yea, the only time in recent memory where vanity sizing would have been greatly appreciated was when I got married. Oh, wait. Betty is saying that they are *always* sized down. Damn.
The British Standards Institute is doing something about this when it created BodyDim, which has a pictogram with actual measurements in centimeters. It is now only rarely used. It should become more widespread when a size 60 or 70 loses its stigma.
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