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In your specific example with clothing, there are two good reasons: 1. There's vanity sizing going on (e.g. 30" pants actually have a 32" waist due to vanity-s
by et-al 4y ago
In your specific example with clothing, there are two good reasons:
1. There's vanity sizing going on (e.g. 30" pants actually have a 32" waist due to vanity-sizing) and measurements provided may not be consistent throughout batches. These are still handmade items, just not artisanal.
2. Fabric drapes differently, so what looks good on a model shots with the clothing meticulously pinned, may look different when you actually wear it.
Also, I assume another reason for a lax return policy is that the margins are large enough to support it. Or retailers expect that most customers won't take advantage of it (until they do, like REI).
- fortran77 4y ago> . There's vanity sizing going on (e.g. 30" pants actually have a 32" waist due to vanity-sizing) It's a shame there can't be standard sizing. All this confusion just because we don't want to offend the overweight and obese.
- bsder 4y agoYou're an ignorant fool. The worst offenders I have known about vanity sizing have generally been fairly small. My grandmother, for example, was without doubt a size 6 but would never buy anything that wasn't listed as a size 4. I have had two girlfriends who were similarly annoying--the clothing I bought them was clearly dead-on the correct size when they tried it on, but they wouldn't wear it because it was a size "too large" (they didn't last long as girlfriends). By contrast, the smallest and largest women I have known simply wanted something that fit correctly regardless of the "labeled size".