Does anyone else HATE clothing sizes?

[LaDeeDa]

I get really frustrated, because i'm really a size 13, and you can only buy jeans in that size.
I was really depressed on the weekend after visiting a costume shop (fancy dress party coming up) The size 14's were too tight, and the next size was too big. I looked online to buy one, and i'm considered a plus size. I don't see plus size when i look in the mirror.

I was in tears when I went to a costume shop after DS was born - all I could find to fit me was the wicked witch of the west costume.... everything else was "sexy" which mean't it showed belly and lycra

[Nadine216]

I just bugger all hate that when I'm looking for a size 14, there are only size 12!!!!

But yeah I hate sizes and I hate that a pair of matching pj's example has 14 bottoms and 14 tops and you can't exchange the top for a 12 I'm a pear and I have the bigger on the bottom and smaller on the top thing going on.

[Patooties]

I was in tears when I went to a costume shop after DS was born - all I could find to fit me was the wicked witch of the west costume.... everything else was "sexy" which mean't it showed belly and lycra

i'm thinking of going as a teletubbie

[The[cookie]Doctor]

There was an article in a Cleo/Cosmo mag a couple of months ago that talked about Brand Loyalty and how there are many brands that it would seem alter thir sizes to get customer loyalty. I'll see if i still have it and write it up as it was really interesting. To the point where a s"elf-confessed size 12" could by a size 8 from store X and then a size 16 from store Y.

Totally hear you on wishing there was legislation!

[Fuzzywuzzy]

i am in the process of getting back into shape after having bub and wanted to buy a pair of cheap jeans to last a month or 2 so went to Big W. I was a size 14 before bub so thought that i could get a 16 but the pair that i tried on i couldn't even pull up. So not to be discouraged by sizing i went back and got an 18 in that particular pair (supposed to be regular waist stretch) and also went to the larger clothes section and thought i'd get a size 18 from there. The first 18 was still tight but at least i could do it up, and the one from the larger section was falling down. I expect differences across brands and stores but not so much variance between things that are 5m apart in the same shop ended up walking out with nothing