Figuring out women's clothing sizes at work is driving me crazy.

[Odin2005]

I work at a thrift store and putting women's clothes in the right place for their size is a real pain in the ass. For us guys it's all set and standardized, for women it's damn chaos. I've seen blouses that are the exact same size, one is labeled as X-Large, another as X-Small. And if the average woman is size 16 why is is a size 8 called Medium and a size 16 called an X-Large?

Seriously, What the Hell?

[applegrove]

1. It varies by culture too. I once tried to buy some outdoor clothes at an outdoorsy shop when

I lived in Nova Scotia. The sizing was all decided in vancouver where they have a significant asian population so of course sizes are much smaller than the girl of Scottish/german descent I am.

[Kali]

2. you think it drives YOU crazy?

try having to buy clothes when you are a woman (especially one who hates clothes shopping anyway!)

[Odin2005]

3. It's hell, I can tell!

[KT2000]

4. No kidding -

it can get ridiculous. Now there are even size 0 clothes and recently I did alterations on a size 1.5!

But don't worry too much about getting them in the right place. Women know that things get moved around so they will go through all of them. They know to check the garment rather than the tag for sizing.

[ChoralScholar]

5. They have no basis in reality. EOM

[kentauros]

6. In my experience, even men's clothing sizes are junk.

Try on two pairs of jeans in the same waist, length and cut, and you will find one fits and the other doesn't.

And the one that does fit, then doesn't fit later on once it's had time to shrink or stretch, usually being a bad fit in the waist, drooping in the back where even a belt won't help.

I think we should all just go naked until they make a standardized system :evilgrin:

[RebelOne]

7. Well, the sizing is sort of true.

I wear a size 8, so I buy medium in a blouse, and a size 16 would swim on me.

[struggle4progress]

8. Assume it's random, but never admit that in public: instead, loudly defend your racking

Yes, that's an extra-large! It says "size 8 medium," see? If it was a large, it would say "size 8 small."

You need to practice glaring