Sizes.....

Jan 06, 2012 17:39

Somebody SAVE my brain. I have been oogling decorated embroidered trousers/jeans on eBay and the US Size charts are totally messed up ( Read more... )

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centauress January 6 2012, 21:49:40 UTC
Yeah. And avoid the ones that only have a large small medium set, they're assuming their fabrics stretch two or more inches, and it fails.

I was just at JCPennys - they used to always include a translation of sizes into inches in the catalog - and even then my size varied from 10-16 based upon the brand of jeans, with some jeans literally not having a size I'd fit in.

A rule of thumb is that we have four adult sets of sizes: Petite, Junior, Misses/Women, Plus/Womens. Most people fit in to the Misses category, but not everyone. The Junior sizes are odd numbers with narrow ratios and the Misses sizes are even numbers with wider ratios. I can't find the little diagram of where to put the measurements...
http://www.jcpenney.com/jcp/womensizes.aspx?refpagename=CustomerServiceSub%25252Easpx&refdeptid=12476&refcatid=43027&CmCatId=searchresults|43027

The problem comes that manufacturers have alot of drift, wanting to flatter higher sizes with low numbers and skimp on fabric at the same time.

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