We went to the woods along Empire Grade just across from upper campus but while we found some pretty things, and lots of fresh, shiny black bambi poop and dead bambi by the road, we found nothing to bring home
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Sewing and fitkate_schaeferDecember 7 2005, 16:54:19 UTC
About that pattern: pattern sizes aren't the ones that have changed. They're nearly the same as they were thirty years ago (waists and hips are ever so slightly larger; breasts are less pointy). Sizes of clothes sold in retail stores have no standardization whatsoever from year to year, or from company to company. In extreme cases, the size may vary wildly within a particular clothing company from style to style. It's all driven by the companies' perception of customer vanity, and it's worst in expensive clothes, which tend to be labelled two sizes smaller than the size they might be defined at, if size were defined
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I'd like to second kate schaefer - sewing patterns haven't changed size since I've been using them (I have, though) but clothing from stores - I'm surprised you have a single number size you think of as yours
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Like I said, I don't care whose fault it is. Somebody's lying to me, though.
(I think I end up in the same position, though, because I think if I ignore the sizes like a good girl and try to go out and buy new patterns -- I'm using all things I've had for a while, and before you ask, yes, I've been the same store sizes all this time allowing for the store insconsistencies, so it seemed reasonable that I'd only have to add a little to make the pattern work -- anyway, I think that I end up with no patterns I like in my size, and I have to remake them anyways, so I think I'll stick with the remade ones I already have.
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(I think I end up in the same position, though, because I think if I ignore the sizes like a good girl and try to go out and buy new patterns -- I'm using all things I've had for a while, and before you ask, yes, I've been the same store sizes all this time allowing for the store insconsistencies, so it seemed reasonable that I'd only have to add a little to make the pattern work -- anyway, I think that I end up with no patterns I like in my size, and I have to remake them anyways, so I think I'll stick with the remade ones I already have.
I wish I never had to buy anything ever.
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