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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (34263)5/10/2005 8:30:37 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Let me ask you a question: has the relative priceiness of your clothes increased? I don't know about European manufacturers, but American manufacturers are famous for false labelling: the more you pay, the smaller the label size, even though it encloses the same bulk.

The European manufacturers generally have sizing
that runs small, frequently causing a person to
buy a size larger than US. So it's not a marketing ploy to
make people feel better.

More recently, I'm convinced that US makers across the board
have downsized their sizing; IOW, what used to be a 6 is now a 4. There's the marketing ploy.

ALso,there have always been some US lines that run large; e.g.
Ellen Tracy. One has to be 5'10" tall to fit those
clothes in the usual sizes one would buy. I've bought 2's and 4's in Ellen Tracy for years, and even some of those are large not to mention long<g> I recently fit into a "0"...lol.

As a general observation, I do agree that the higher priced
clothes tend to be more true to size or or even appear to
be cut small, but again, these tend to be European.

Max Mara and anything purchased at Bebe are small---probably
because they cater to the younger crowd.

One just has to be an educated shopper and not get excited
about sizes. I just try on anything that looks likely to fit
regardless of the listed size.

My other half would probably insist that I'm "size phobic."
In some respects that may be true. If I ever have to wear
a double digit size that is not European, there would
be much unhappiness and gnashing of teeth, particularly
given the super-sizing of clothes these days.

But that's another story...lol
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