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.

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.

Originally Posted by Law

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!

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]

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

I am shrinking too, i think it's all the rain!! Not that im complaining! Just hope baggy jeans are in fashion someday soon!!

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.

Originally Posted by Rune

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, .

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

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.


*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.