Something I've always wondered about sizes

Preesi wrote:

The mirrors are slightly curved in the changing room as well so you look
skinnier

Gee, and I thougth I WAS getting skinnier :P
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Kitty =^..^=
168/156.6/130 - November Goal 155
17 September 03
caloric needs visit http://www.femalemuscle.com/nutrition/calculate.html

Martha Gallagher wrote:

but her weight was much higher than I would have thought possible based on
how she looked.

People don't think I am as heavy as I am .. they put me at 130 .. or
maybe they are being nice?? Naw ..not that MANY nice people around ..
most are indifferent ..

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Kitty =^..^=
168/156.6/130 - November Goal 155
17 September 03
caloric needs visit http://www.femalemuscle.com/nutrition/calculate.html

Really?

At 5'9" I now weigh 246. (Nearly 50 lbs lost!) When I weighed 150 a
million years ago, I could not touch a size 8 ANYTHING I would be
beyond thrilled if I ever get into comfortably a 14.

Amazons run in my family. I will know I am there when I get there
weightwise!

Pam

At 5'9" ... When I weighed 150 a
million years ago, I could not touch a size 8 ANYTHING I would be
beyond thrilled if I ever get into comfortably a 14.

I'm 5'8" and a 14 was basically my size when I weighed in the 140s-150s
range 20 years ago. I can even clearly recall some specific skirts in
size 14 that I ordered from Lands End back then and wore to work all the
time.

But 6 years ago near the end of a diet, I was wearing 14s (including
some jeans and pants from Lands End) while weighing in the 170s!
Obviously I did not suddenly grow taller, so something is up with the
sizing of women's clothes.

- Anne

On 18 Nov 2003 08:41:52 -0800, Pamsta wrote:

Really?

At 5'9" I now weigh 246. (Nearly 50 lbs lost!) When I weighed 150 a
million years ago, I could not touch a size 8 ANYTHING I would be
beyond thrilled if I ever get into comfortably a 14.

Amazons run in my family. I will know I am there when I get there
weightwise!

Pam

Actually I was being facetious. She looked ridiculous. :-)

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Randy M
234/203/175
Atkins since 7/14/03

Jenny wrote:

Today's 6 is the old 12 from the 1970s. Back in 1978 the only time I could
get into a 6 was when I weighed 108 lbs and hadn't eaten lunch. Now I'm a
six with 30 more pounds on me.

Why do women put up with that kind of cr*p? Men can use a tape
measure and have their size. Inches and centimeters have not
been resized in quite some time. I may be on the line between
two sizes, but if some men's clothing manufacture tries to play
that game, goodbye there are plenty of other manufacturers.

On 18 Nov 2003 15:26:19 -0800, (Doug Freyburger)
wrote:

Why do women put up with that kind of cr*p? Men can use a tape
measure and have their size. Inches and centimeters have not
been resized in quite some time. I may be on the line between
two sizes, but if some men's clothing manufacture tries to play
that game, goodbye there are plenty of other manufacturers.

We put up with it because that's the way it is, and most of us aren't
in a position to do anything about it. It allows for "vanity" sizing,
and all kinds of ways to make the clothing industry scads of bucks.
That includes charging us more for oridinary jeans, and tops.

I'd go for the straight inches approach, but there are a lot of women
who'd absolutely lose it if they had to deal with their true sizes.
It would be too embarrassing, I suppose, to admit that you have a 56
inch waist (and, God forbid you should admit to having 60 inches worth
of hips!). It's them who keep this madness going.

Karen Rodgers

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Pat wrote:

Sorry to disagree with you Doug, but it's not even so with men's sizes.
Today's "medium" polo shirt is yesterday's large. Tried on any Tee shirts

Hiding how big America really has become with the food pyramid .. this
way they can say, but on average, people wear a medium??

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Kitty =^..^=
168/156.8/130ish - Nov Goal 155
September 17, 2003
Calorie Requirements - http://homepage.mac.com/matrx/FileSharing7.html

Correct Pat, my waist measures 40", yet I can get into 36" Jeans with no
problem!

Strange, but true!

My 42's are like potato sacks now! :-)

Mark
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285/231/210 6' 1 "
Aug/03/03
Literally Walked My Big Fat Ass Off! LOL

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"Pat" wrote in

Sorry to disagree with you Doug, but it's not even so with men's sizes.