Women's clothing sizes: now with more incomprehensability!
I'm taking a clothing making class, which has meant taking all my measurements and getting a pattern and all that jazz.
In order to figure out what size pattern to make, you compare your measurements to the size chart on the pattern. Sizes start at 6 and go up; you want to cut out the largest size that matches your measurements, cause it's easier to take in a pattern than add more fabric later.
So my bust? Doesn't even make it onto the chart. They don't acknowledge numbers that low.
Next up, hips: Size 8. Huh. I buy size 4 pants. But okay, I think I've heard that Vogue patterns run small.
Finally, waist: Size 12.
Yes, that's right. This pattern thinks my waist requires cutting out the size 12. (We used the size 10; I am making the jacket, not the pants. Also, the pattern - which I am borrowing from someone who is roughly my size - had already been cut to the size 10 lines.)
When I buy clothing that is already made, I find that the size 4 fits me best - and any pants that fit over my hips generally are TOO BIG around my waist. (I sometimes attempt the size 6 pants, but they are uniformly TOO BIG EVERYWHERE.)
Dear pattern makers, What the fuck?
In order to figure out what size pattern to make, you compare your measurements to the size chart on the pattern. Sizes start at 6 and go up; you want to cut out the largest size that matches your measurements, cause it's easier to take in a pattern than add more fabric later.
So my bust? Doesn't even make it onto the chart. They don't acknowledge numbers that low.
Next up, hips: Size 8. Huh. I buy size 4 pants. But okay, I think I've heard that Vogue patterns run small.
Finally, waist: Size 12.
Yes, that's right. This pattern thinks my waist requires cutting out the size 12. (We used the size 10; I am making the jacket, not the pants. Also, the pattern - which I am borrowing from someone who is roughly my size - had already been cut to the size 10 lines.)
When I buy clothing that is already made, I find that the size 4 fits me best - and any pants that fit over my hips generally are TOO BIG around my waist. (I sometimes attempt the size 6 pants, but they are uniformly TOO BIG EVERYWHERE.)
Dear pattern makers, What the fuck?