Grr.

[kethlenda]

Is it too much to ask that clothing manufacturers, oh, standardize their sizes a little bit more?

I do not like going to Target, hauling six items that claim to be the same size into the dressing room, and having some of them fit, some of them so tight I can't button them, and some of them falling off my booty

Comments

[carlos_thedwarf]

In short, the answer to you question about clothes is feminine vanity. Women will not abide having actual units of measure used to size their clothes (like men's) and therefore manufacturers have to use the arbitrary crazy-quilt method you refer to.

I've never understood it, myself. Size ten? Ten what? Liters? Furlongs? Cubits?

[kethlenda]

I think at this point I'd love it if they measured the clothes in actual measurements. I know what my waist is because I know what I wear in men's jeans, and so I would love to have that right there in the tag. As long as they didn't do the thing Levi's does where the measurements are printed on the *outside* for all the world to see. ;)

Trying on size sixteen leads to being reminded of all sorts of cheesy oldies songs about sixteen-year-old girls. I think if I ever donate my brain to science they'll find that 99% of it is taken up by song lyrics.

"She was too young to fall in love/And I was too young to know..."

*lol*

[starrysummer]

Argh, the size thing drives me nuts, too. I've also discovered that after eating a meal, my stomach expands an entire freaking pants size. And elastic and undone buttons? Not so acceptable on work clothes.

I really want to fix my "none of my clothes fit" issue cheaply and online, but considering that fit is the issue at hand, somehow that seems like a poor solution...

[lilacsigil]

I bought six pairs of panties from Target (Australian Target, which I think is not the same store as US Target), in the same size and style, on the same day, from one rack. Only two pairs are, in fact, the same size. There's a six-centimetre difference in width between the biggest and smallest! This drives me insane, and leads to such acts as buying six of the same thing so I don't have to go back for a year.

[kethlenda]

OMG, yes. If I find something basic that I really love the fit of, I end up buying 5 copies of the same thing in different colors.