View Full Version : Am I shrinking, or is everything else getting bigger?
I used to be a size 10 - now size 8 trousers are virtually falling off my bum...
... and ones that are designed to be worn round the waist and not 'meant' to be 'fashionably' (in the loosest sense of the word - and trousers) hanging off my hips.
My shoes used to be a size 6 - now I appear to only take a size 5.
Are manufacturers making things bigger to con folks into thinking they've lost weight...
... or in another ten years will I dissapear into my own socks?
Inquiring minds want to know.:smt039
Does me bum look big in this ? apparently not anymore ;)
Maybe, I saw my mate at the weekend. He's 25 and he told me he's recently outgrown his trainers. after years of staying the same size.
Maybe, I saw my mate at the weekend. He's 25 and he told me he's recently outgrown his trainers. after years of staying the same size.
What - like the same pair? Eeeeuuuuwwww - stinky! :p
It's just a ploy the companys have to flatter you into buying their clothes. It's called oversizing, I think. It's quite common in the states as far as I know...
dizzyblonde
12-07-07, 03:21 PM
apparently every night while you sleep, you stretch by a couple of inches. As for your waist size,,me thinks you need to eat more pies like me..every shop has a different definition on sizing and can vary dramatically...there has been a recent thing in the news about it
a; because the british woman of today is completely different in size and shape to what statistics are based on from the 1950's
b; our sizin charts are completely different to how they do it in Europe and seeing as though we are all dictated to from there,we as a country are looking towards bringing our sizing rules in line with them
make any sense??
Oh and yes as you get older you shrink in height
Kate Moss
12-07-07, 03:21 PM
I am shrinking too, i think it's all the rain!! Not that im complaining! Just hope baggy jeans are in fashion someday soon!!
wyrdness
12-07-07, 03:26 PM
Womens clothes sizes vary considerably between different manufacturers. They also change over time, with each size getting gradually bigger.
Mrs Wyrdness is around a size 8. She recently bought a dress made from a 1950's pattern and had to get a size 12, as sizes were much smaller then. When she went for a job interview recently, she complained that her size 6 interview suit was feeling a bit tight, but sometimes finds that a size 10 fits better than an 8.
There are proposals to standardise womens clothing based on actual measurements, rather than unstandardised and very variable size numbers.
It's just a ploy the companys have to flatter you into buying their clothes. It's called oversizing, I think. It's quite common in the states as far as I know...
This is also the exact same reason that different shops in the UK, you buy the same size clothes, they don't fit the same.
I'm sure all the women on the org will know that in some shops, they're a given size (lets say as per the example given, a 10), and in another shop, another size (say, 8).
apparently every night while you sleep, you stretch by a couple of inches.
Cool - so if I manage to get my left leg to so to sleep will it wake up the same length as my right one? That would be handy. ;)
I can actually compare my old pair of cheapass Tesco Jeans that were a size 10 (two years ago) and really comfy... but have now died a death - so I go and replace them with another pair of cheapass Tesco Jeans = now a size 8 and a bit baggy. :roll:
*sigh* I may as well face it - I'm shrinking and going to end my life as that mad old crone living in a shoe. ;)
Steve H
12-07-07, 03:30 PM
It is true, I used to be 6'8", now I'm only 6'1" :smt103
It's just a ploy the companys have to flatter you into buying their clothes. It's called oversizing, I think. It's quite common in the states as far as I know...
ahhhhhhhhh.......... that would explain going from a 48" waist down to a 34"
:D
apparently every night while you sleep, you stretch by a couple of inches.
T'is true.
IIRC, it's because of the fluid returning to your spine, and the soft squishy discs between the bones returning to their normal shape when not under the weight of your body.
Whilst you're awake, and not laying flat on your back, the same squishy discs are, erm, squished. :D
Two of mine have a hole in them, which mean if I don't drink enough fluids, the bones in my spine start rubbing together (because all the fluid "leaks out"), with the possibility of trapping a nerve in the process. Wohoo!
Perhaps you should mark your height against a wall & keep checking bi-annually?
Being a member of the wonky knee gang, your height may fluctuate if you forget which leg you're standing straight on!
;o)
Two of mine have a hole in them, which mean if I don't drink enough fluids, the bones in my spine start rubbing together (because all the fluid "leaks out"), with the possibility of trapping a nerve in the process. Wohoo!
Baph - EUGH!
Baph - EUGH!
Oh it gets better. ;)
Every now & again I have to have an appointment at the local hospital for them to draw the fluid out of my spinal area, as if it's left it causes untold problems to my innards. :lol:
I can have the bones fused, and the discs removed, which would solve that part of the problem, but I'd also loose mobility (apparently up to 5degrees, which is a hell of a lot in your spine), and the operation itself carries a high risk of paralysis from the waist down, and medium risk of quadripalegia.
The benefits of not having the operation outweigh the risks of having it, and not having it leaves me parapalegic at a predicted 40years old.
And that's only the half of it. :lol:
TVR_Tracy
12-07-07, 03:57 PM
Eek 6'8" to 6'1"!!! There's hope for me to be average height yet then :lol:
K: Watch out you don't topple over with your shrinking feet ;)
Cool - so if I manage to get my left leg to so to sleep will it wake up the same length as my right one? That would be handy. ;)
I can actually compare my old pair of cheapass Tesco Jeans that were a size 10 (two years ago) and really comfy... but have now died a death - so I go and replace them with another pair of cheapass Tesco Jeans = now a size 8 and a bit baggy. :roll:
*sigh* I may as well face it - I'm shrinking and going to end my life as that mad old crone living in a shoe. ;)
buggar thats why im putting on weight - Im getting all the stuff your misplacing K. or maybe its the chocolate lol
or maybe its the chocolate lol
kitkats, perchance???!
Oh god...so I've got getting shorter to look forward to...maybe I should have bought myself a minimoto, might get my feet down then lol :D
kitkats, perchance???!
not really that keen on kitkats. saying that if there is nothing else i can tolerate them. the nickname goes back to a joke when I was in wrens. saying no more ;)
Spiderman
12-07-07, 07:04 PM
K, maybe its a side affect of your hair having shrunk recently too. :smt103
I used to be a size 10 - now size 8 trousers are virtually falling off my bum...
(in the loosest sense of the word - and trousers) hanging off my hips.
:smt039
This Thread is poinless without photo's K.... pm them to me.... Then I'll let you know.:love: :rolleyes: ;)
Never mind your bodies, more importantly cream eggs are shrinking too :(
dizzyblonde
12-07-07, 08:05 PM
Oh it gets better. ;)
Every now & again I have to have an appointment at the local hospital for them to draw the fluid out of my spinal area, as if it's left it causes untold problems to my innards. :lol:
I can have the bones fused, and the discs removed, which would solve that part of the problem, but I'd also loose mobility (apparently up to 5degrees, which is a hell of a lot in your spine), and the operation itself carries a high risk of paralysis from the waist down, and medium risk of quadripalegia.
The benefits of not having the operation outweigh the risks of having it, and not having it leaves me parapalegic at a predicted 40years old.
And that's only the half of it. :lol:
my mate had a double spine fusion, its not very nice for him he hasn't decided yet if it actually did him any good. He's not very bendy unlike me..due to the hyper mobility thing, something to do with high collagen, I can not only look forward to being more normal( less bendy) as i get older, but I will look a lot younger than most crinkleys my age, collagen levels also predict how wrinkley you get. also I'll probably not shrink either...wehey im indoors will be happy in later life!!
not really that keen on kitkats. saying that if there is nothing else i can tolerate them. the nickname goes back to a joke when I was in wrens. saying no more ;)
I knew a wren who could have been called kitkat - have we met?:D
muffles
12-07-07, 08:53 PM
I'm surprised no-one has asked for a picture of said bum so they can judge!
Well, I'm certainly not going to... [-(
:geek:
This Thread is poinless without photo's K.... pm them to me.... Then I'll let you know.:love: :rolleyes: ;)
As Richie says;)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i93/tracy_5/CB1/threadworthless.jpg?t=1184274644
Spiderman
12-07-07, 09:19 PM
Whats K's bum? Well she did post a pic of it ages ago. Oh no hang on that wasnt a pic of her bum ... it was just of her new leathers sat on the bike, with her in em. ;)
This Thread is poinless without photo's K.... pm them to me.... Then I'll let you know.:love: :rolleyes: ;)
I do believe you took a sneaky pic on the North/South when I was trying to avoid your camera... or were you fibbing as a wind-up :---) - afterall, I've yet to see any evidence.
Anyway - enough of my backside thankyou very much - it's mine, so ner. :rolleyes: This is a serious thread about serious issues of retailer misrepresentation and consumer ... er... shrinkage... um...
... yeah right. :oops:
Never mind your bodies, more importantly cream eggs are shrinking too :(
And Curly Wurlys.:mad:
And Curly Wurlys.:mad:
Don't even mention wagon wheels :smt067
svpilot
13-07-07, 07:08 AM
And the chocolate hoops in Muller crunch corners :mad:
not really that keen on kitkats. saying that if there is nothing else i can tolerate them. the nickname goes back to a joke when I was in wrens. saying no more ;)
I knew a wren who could have been called kitkat - have we met?:D
:smt102 :smt112 maybe :-# hope not 8-[ :-s was long time ago :oops: :shock: dont think so [-o<:smt081
:smt102 :smt112 maybe :-# hope not 8-[ :-s was long time ago :oops: :shock: dont think so [-o<:smt081
Come on: Spill beenz!
Come on: Spill beenz!
lol no way :smt112
How many fingers do you get in a kitkat....?
the small one you get 2, and the larger ones you get 4 in.
now I like the Chunky Kitkats the best, stright from the fridge... Yummy.
plowsie
13-07-07, 01:38 PM
All this talk of shrinking makes me wanna lose some weight, i've seen some piccies of me a year or 2 ago(even 6 months)and i am skinny :eek: 38" waist ere, buttttt i bought some 38s from Burtons the other day and couldn't even do em up. Put my old jeans on which are a 36 and they fit fine. Went back to Burtons, 40" waist fits me :D Seriously gotta stop on the kebabs lol.
How many fingers do you get in a kitkat....?
the small one you get 2, and the larger ones you get 4 in.
now I like the Chunky Kitkats the best, stright from the fridge... Yummy.
:oops: :oops: :oops:
lol no way :smt112
This has got something to do with the old Joan Collins joke, hasn't it?
I'm shrinking, most definitely.
3 years ago I weighed 9 stone and had done since I was 21, then due to illness I rocketed to almost 12 1/2 stone within 8 months. My waist went from a 30" to a 36" and i put on bulk all over - I felt awful. I stayed that weight for about 2 years and bought a whole load of new clothes and almost got round to having my M2M leathers altered to take into account my belly. About 6 months ago I started losing weight, slowly and controlled, and I'm now a tidy, trim 11 stone which I'm trying to maintain.
Carsick
14-07-07, 05:44 AM
My waist size is shrinking too, but I had put that down to my decrease in drinking since I left uni and losing 2 stone.
I haven't actually measured my waist.
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