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[prillalar]

I wish I'd kept my parachute pants from high school. Then I'd know the truth about vanity sizing. Plus they were damn cool.

Questions three:

1. What outfit do you wish you had from high school?

2. What are your thoughts on vanity sizing?

3. Would you buy a DVD set of Facts of Life if it were on sale for $14.99?

Comments

[squidlet.livejournal.com]

1. I still wear those that haven't fallen apart. There was this dress made of soft denim with leather buckle shoulder straps I miss.

2. What is that? I'm guessing it's when they say it's a size smaller than it is? Or is it the different systems between Europe, UK, Japan and America?

Even if I take clothes theoretically my size, wouldn't the appropriateness of fit depend on the specific dimensions of your body? I have broad shoulders and short legs.

3. Not really.

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

Basically. Someone who fits a size 10 would fit a size 8 etc. Leads to a closet of clothes filled with clothes of a vast sizing difference. And more frustration when trying something on.

[prillalar]

Mine are all long gone, which is a good thing for 99% of them.

Yeah, vanity sizing is basically labelling clothes with smaller and smaller sizes to make women feel better about themselves. It happens in NA and the UK -- not sure about the rest of Europe or Japan. There's a lack of consistency as well, so just because you can fit size n in one store doesn't mean you can fit the same in another.