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Not to take away from your shock or from congratulations on your transformation, but I suspect you’re talking about pant sizing and the article is talking abo
by swatcoder 4y ago
Not to take away from your shock or from congratulations on your transformation, but I suspect you’re talking about pant sizing and the article is talking about actual waist measurement.
Fashion sizing is notoriously generous and no longer reflects real/tailor measurements. The off-the-rack pants labeled as 32 or 36 or 40 are almost never reflective of an actual tailor’s measurement anymore. They’re essentially just the comfortable size for people who identify with that number and are often quite a bit larger than they used to be.
- dghughes 4y agoAlthough I prefer actual units be used instead of vague small, medium, large sizes for clothes and or barelycorns for shoe size. Just give me metric units!
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoMost pants sit way below the waist, though. Pants labeled 38 might fit just fine on someone with a 38 waist even though the actual measurement of the pants is larger, because they are sitting far down on the hips.
- swatcoder 4y agoSure, but the numbers aren’t true to that either. It’s called vanity sizing and it’s been around for decades. It’s not even a crazy thing. People just want a way to know what to buy at the store, so the numbers are more a matter of tradition than anything. “34” people like to buy “34” or are maybe comfortable moving on to “36” or “38” as they age and willfully let themselves go. Regardless of where fashion has the waistline fall this year, or how bodies are transforming, the product strategy involves putting the right number on the right fit.