This stuff is driving me mad...
I was checking out American dress sizes for a story and found
this site. Translating the clothes I usually wear into US standards, it claimed I was a size four (or possibly a size six). But the few American pieces of clothing I've worn have been size 7/8
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So, in other words, that chart can't be accurate. It's obviously adding too much to the European sizes.
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Sizing chart translations are never very good.
For shoes, for example, I know what I wear: a UK 3.5/4, US 6, and European 36. As a shoe hound, I have plenty of each example floating around.
Translation charts have claimed my US 6 is anywhere from a UK 5 to a European 38.
The US measurements there are very off. When I wore an 8/10 comfortably, my measurements were about 98/72/98.
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Ah, that sounds more like it. :-)
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But still, my formal dress is a size 8, no bigger... but of course, it could be a UK size 8, and they could be more reasonable.
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But then, clothing sizes are also pretty erratic from brand to brand and so on, so who knows....
Or I could be completely wrong.
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I mean I know what I actually wear and what the chart is saying I should wear based on my measurements, and the totals are way off. At least 2 sizes off in one case. Of course, I'm 5'9", so maybe the height issue matters. And styles will matter as well. A full skirt, for example, is a lot more forgiving than a straight one.
But the thing is, I love how these tables automatically assume that a set of three measurements are going to correspond with each other. I don't wear the same size on top as I do on bottom and probably never will. Buying a suit is usually a nightmare and I'm always stuck getting the darn things tailored.
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