seriously depressed!!!!!!! someone help.........

[FigureSkater]

I will tell yall something now that probably none of yaz ever knew before - when I heard it I nearly shit!

Does any of you know how clothing sizes are determined by the manufacterers in the first place?!

They hire "fit" models, make the clothing for the size that they are SUPPOSED to be and with mathematical formula determine larger and smaller sizes. So now, if the professional model who is SUPPOSED to be certain specific measurements (not weight, but cm's or inches as in waist, hips, bust, inseam, etc) is NOT the size she SAYS she is.... GUESS WHAT?

THE CLOTHING IS EITHER BIGGER OR SMALLER THAN WHAT THE LINE WAS BEFORE OR THAN ANOTHER BRAND

Or some stores change/alter sizes based on the types of people they "want" wearing their clothes and representing their "image". I used to wear Abercrombie everything in high school/first few years of college. I think they used to run big, because I wore a 6-8 (and anywhere from an 8-12 in juniors everywhere else due to screwy sizes). A year or two ago Abercrombie changed their sizes around, along with making the clothes a lower quality, and at the same size I was then I can barely squeeze into a 10 or 12 there, IF they even have those sizes in the store, because they want everyone who shops there to look like their skinny, twiggy little pre-pubescent looking models. And forget finding tops there that fit any more, because they seem to have forgotten that some women (myself included) have breasts!

 

[Dakotah]

Thanks ladies for everything- it is greatly appreciated.
i really needed an emotional boost, i sat and thought about things last night and decided to up my cardio, and eat differently, i like turkey, and fish with white rice, so it looks like that and veggies are my new meal plan. it isnt that costly and yet its tastes great.

I will be able to fit my new clothes by winter. that is my goal and i will accomplish it. instead of three days a week at the gym i am uping it to at least 5 days a week. 2 cardio and three lifting, possibly a day of swimming laps, either way i will be fit the way i want to be.

 

[Gymgurl]

You stated that you don't see the extra weight ......so is some of it muscle? It tends to weigh alot more...I know what I weigh and what size I wear are way out of whack...Hang in there!

 

[brunette]

(hugs)

it's all *so* subjective with the clothing, not to mention goddamned vanity sizing

remember it's just a number, the real Q is how do you feel and look? because from your avatar you are looking svelte

keep in your mealplan happy serotonin booting foods, like the turkey and nuts. chin up sweetie

 

[Pamela]

I will tell yall something now that probably none of yaz ever knew before - when I heard it I nearly shit!

Does any of you know how clothing sizes are determined by the manufacterers in the first place?!

They hire "fit" models, make the clothing for the size that they are SUPPOSED to be and with mathematical formula determine larger and smaller sizes. So now, if the professional model who is SUPPOSED to be certain specific measurements (not weight, but cm's or inches as in waist, hips, bust, inseam, etc) is NOT the size she SAYS she is.... GUESS WHAT?

THE CLOTHING IS EITHER BIGGER OR SMALLER THAN WHAT THE LINE WAS BEFORE OR THAN ANOTHER BRAND

I used to model (though not fit modeling as I was too short) and when the girls told me this I almost shit!!!

Hehehehehehehheheeee

I wear anything from a children's size 12 to an adult size 7! LOL



AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF THAT THE WONDERFULLY KNOWLEDGEABLE LADIES SAID BEFORE ME!!!!




Cheer up Sugarplumb - life is a grand adventure!

Thanks Werd!
This is what I was thinking to.
Anytime I try on something it's always a different size.

Dakotah don't worry about the size. Just eat good and workout and
you will feel so much better.
You look great girl.

 

[Dakotah]

ib did feel okay until i saw tht i went up 2 sizes in clothes
but now i just figure im going to have to work harder, im feeling much better now though i just try not to think about it that much.
as far as the sizes of the clothes well i have always known that they ae screwy i jut wasnt thinking about it when it mattered

 

[Pamela]

How are you doing?

 

[jenscats5]

Or some stores change/alter sizes based on the types of people they "want" wearing their clothes and representing their "image". I used to wear Abercrombie everything in high school/first few years of college. I think they used to run big, because I wore a 6-8 (and anywhere from an 8-12 in juniors everywhere else due to screwy sizes). A year or two ago Abercrombie changed their sizes around, along with making the clothes a lower quality, and at the same size I was then I can barely squeeze into a 10 or 12 there, IF they even have those sizes in the store, because they want everyone who shops there to look like their skinny, twiggy little pre-pubescent looking models. And forget finding tops there that fit any more, because they seem to have forgotten that some women (myself included) have breasts!

You know I saw something on TV about Abercrombie and they do have this "image" thing -- they won't even hire people who don't fit that image or allow them to work the floor of the store..... people who had been working there were forced to move in the back or quit if they didn't fit that image....

Unbelievable....