Hmmm-

Height: 5'0" (SHUT UP!)
Weight: 126
Pants size: 6-8
Shirt size: small (whatever that means)
measurements:
34/27/35.8

5'6"
123#

size 6 dress (sometimes size 4 in more expensive stores)
size 5-7 pants, often have to get tall sizes, can't wear ladies pants because my waist is too big, LOVE the low-rise style pants
shirt - God only knows! I often need a large in juniors and certainly in swim suit tops! But usually a small in ladies sizes.

I HATE SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES!

Sorry, minor rant there...

Jen

I am 5'1", 108 lbs, and wear a size 5 jrs. I'd be a size smaller if not for my huge belly and inner thighs, which seem to want to be the last to leave!

I'm a small-xsmall in misses tops, and a medium or small in juniors tops. I think everything in the jrs department is made to be skintight.

I am 5'9", 139# (as of this morning - water retention I think)

Size 5/6 extra long jeans/pants (28" waist, 35" inseam!) - love those low rise pants! Still have to get rid of more belly fat though ;~)
Med-Large shirt (store dependent - why can't they have standard sizes???)
Size 10 blazer.... a little top heavy here LOL
No idea what dress size, last one I bought was a 10 which I altered down.

Good thread...

Take care all

Julie

i'm 5'2 and 3/4 inches and weigh 136.5. I guess I can now comfortably get into my size 10 jeans. Tops are small or size 8. Hoping to get a lot smaller, but my bottom has always been larger than my top. Maybe a size 6 bottom would be a dream, especially if I can get a tight butt like J Lo's.

5'6", 143#
pant size 8-9, dress size 8.

Yes that's what I'm talking about it's wierd.

Maybe clothes have changed. Oh well!

Lily

me.....

5'7
150
37 bust
42 hips
22 (ea) thighs

Well, my analytical mind started pondering this article, and I came up with the following:

Designer clothing may have been like that, and likely most Vintage clothing that is left was of a better quality, or it would have been worn out and tossed as rags.

How come, if manufacturers kept adjusting the sizing up (so that a size 10 a few years ago is now a size 4, for example), I didn't keep wearing the same size as I increased in size? Wouldn't you think that would be a correlation?

Maybe I'm just being too analytical, or hoping that the sizes I remember wearing are still the same.

Maybe I should see if my mother still has my wedding dress in the attic, and see if it fits (or at least comes closer than before I started this WOE). I'm thinking a lot of the size discrepency has to do with designers.

Pattern companies have never been in line with manufacturers, anyway. I remember wearing one size and having to get patterns substantially different in size, just to fit the bust - there was absolutely no correlation. Besides that, all patterns are made for a 5'8" frame, and I ALWAYS have to adjust the length.

5 foot 7
186 lbs.
size 14

I love this thread!! I am 5'5", and just weighed in at 162, I wear a size 6 in Lee jeans, a size 8 in Levi. My weight goal is 150, and my size goal was to get into a single digit size one time in my adult life!!

5'9"
254 pounds
Usually size 20W in pants and skirts, XL or 1X in tops

FYI, sizes are different in Europe and the United States. I think that a 12 in the U.S. is the equivalent of a 16 in England.

5'0 (maybe a smidgen under)
122 pounds
Pants Size 4-6.
Built like an hourglass - bust and butt same measurement, a lowly sitting belly, and an exaggerated waist. So I have a US size 4 that fits cos it is high waisted, my other US sized pants are all 6's, but if I got hipsters are going to be a tight 6.

CHERYLAUST -
Hi there, a standard size 16 Australian is a US size 12-14, probably more towards the US 14 end.

The 'size 6' remarks on US TV always sound so shocking to our Aussie ears, but its just a 'larger' 10.

In fact, Australia's 'easy to find' sizes are a smaller range then in the US - a size 8 is a size 1-2 (and some 0's); a size 10 a 4-6; a size 12 an 8-10; a size 14 an 10-12; and as said a size 16 is 12-14; a size 18 a 16, a size 20 a 18 etc from there. You go into a US clothes shop and you will find that clothes less then size 6 are hard to find.. there 'common' sizes start at our 'larger' size 10!

In the smaller US sizes it is just such crazy fine distinctions - I mean they have 'small 10' (a 4) and 'larger 10' (a 6), and even what is really a 'size 8-10' (there size 2). Its a lot of clothes to stock!

I know US exchange students who are 'size 8's' and go shopping here and are devastated to find they are a 14, which is to them a bit of shock, and even more upset to found that they are the largest size on the Myer's Miss shop rack! It does though, make buying clothes in US sizes rather nice - I have a friend who is a size 14 who stocked up on the US size 10's while over there just to have wadrobe full of misleading tags!

Our sizes go down smaller to. Teeny bopper shops like 'Supre' and 'Ice' and 'Hound Dog', as well as older rich woman's shops like Cue all go down to Australian size 4's. Which would be equivilant to... well a US size negative 2 or 4 if we were to extend the trend!!! Mind you, US size O's don't seem to be very consistent and some probably are that small!

i'm 5'9"
i wear a size 12 in bottoms and small in tops. We can all see where it goes! : )
i'm 154.4 pounds.