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Posted by Pogonip on September 17, 2006, 12:34 am
There is an ad for a diet, and the young woman in it is all excited
because she is wearing a size 2. She looks to me like about a 10 or 12.
Have sizes changed? When I was skinny, which was a long time ago, I
wore a 10, and my bones stuck out. I am (was?) 5'6" and weighed 115. A
friend wore a 6, but she was 4'10" and weighed 85 lbs.

I am having a hard time getting my mind around this "size 2." Am I off
base here?
--
Joanne
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Posted by Phaedrine on September 17, 2006, 12:56 am
wrote:

> There is an ad for a diet, and the young woman in it is all excited
> because she is wearing a size 2. She looks to me like about a 10 or 12.
> Have sizes changed? When I was skinny, which was a long time ago, I
> wore a 10, and my bones stuck out. I am (was?) 5'6" and weighed 115. A
> friend wore a 6, but she was 4'10" and weighed 85 lbs.
>
> I am having a hard time getting my mind around this "size 2." Am I off
> base here?

I just posted a thing on this subject the other day... the NPR spot by
the author of "Stick Girl". My daughter barely weighs 100# and there is
no RTW that fits her.

--
I fear me you but warm the starved snake
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI,Shakespeare)

Posted by Kate Dicey on September 17, 2006, 3:38 am
Phaedrine wrote:

> wrote:
>
>
>>There is an ad for a diet, and the young woman in it is all excited
>>because she is wearing a size 2. She looks to me like about a 10 or 12.
>> Have sizes changed? When I was skinny, which was a long time ago, I
>>wore a 10, and my bones stuck out. I am (was?) 5'6" and weighed 115. A
>>friend wore a 6, but she was 4'10" and weighed 85 lbs.
>>
>>I am having a hard time getting my mind around this "size 2." Am I off
>>base here?
>
>
> I just posted a thing on this subject the other day... the NPR spot by
> the author of "Stick Girl". My daughter barely weighs 100# and there is
> no RTW that fits her.
>
I get confused as well... I know Our UK sizes are different from the US
sizes, but-!

LAST time I was this size by measurements, I was wearing a size 12-14 in
Marks & Spencers stuff, and a 14-16 in Vogue patterns. THIS time I'm
wearing size 10 M&S T shirts, and size 12-14 Vogue.

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Posted by BEI Design on September 17, 2006, 1:56 am
Pogonip wrote:
> There is an ad for a diet, and the young woman in it is
> all excited because she is wearing a size 2. She looks
> to me like about a 10 or 12. Have sizes changed?

Yes. RTW has, IMHO, done some major size "deflation". What was
a size 10 in 1960 is now a size 2(?), the old size 12 is now a 4,
etc. Makes today's teens (and I suppose matrons, too) feel so
much more like buying clothes if they can wear an off-the-rack 4.

>When I
> was skinny, which was a long time ago, I wore a 10, and
> my bones stuck out. I am (was?) 5'6" and weighed 115. A
> friend wore a 6, but she was 4'10" and weighed 85 lbs.

My wedding gown was made from a size 12 pattern, I was 5'6", and
weighed 118 pounds, and very slender.
http://home.comcast.net/~beidesigns/wsb/html/view.cgi-image.html--graphic.html

The commercial pattern industry did a complete overhaul of
measurements and sizes in the mid-60s(anyone remember the date?)
and from that point on I bought size 10 patterns with basically
the same measurements as the old size 12, so the pattern industry
was just trying to stay on a par with RTW. But RTW continued the
down-sizing phoniness.

> I am having a hard time getting my mind around this "size
> 2." Am I off base here?

Not if it's a toddler size... ;-> Sheesh, my slender 11-year-old
granddaughter wears a girl's size 10-12, and was able to purchase
cute jacket in a teen shop in size "6". No adult woman is
capable of wearing a *true* size 2, IMNSHO, that's just appealing
to her vanity.

Glad I sew...

Beverly



Posted by Val on September 17, 2006, 2:10 am
The last time I saw a size 2 was 36 years ago and I was tying it on my son's
FOOT!

*sigh"
Val


> Pogonip wrote:
>> There is an ad for a diet, and the young woman in it is
>> all excited because she is wearing a size 2. She looks
>> to me like about a 10 or 12. Have sizes changed?
>
> Yes. RTW has, IMHO, done some major size "deflation". What was a size 10
> in 1960 is now a size 2(?), the old size 12 is now a 4, etc. Makes
> today's teens (and I suppose matrons, too) feel so much more like buying
> clothes if they can wear an off-the-rack 4.
>
>>When I
>> was skinny, which was a long time ago, I wore a 10, and
>> my bones stuck out. I am (was?) 5'6" and weighed 115. A
>> friend wore a 6, but she was 4'10" and weighed 85 lbs.
>
> My wedding gown was made from a size 12 pattern, I was 5'6", and weighed
> 118 pounds, and very slender.
> http://home.comcast.net/~beidesigns/wsb/html/view.cgi-image.html--graphic.html
>
> The commercial pattern industry did a complete overhaul of measurements
> and sizes in the mid-60s(anyone remember the date?) and from that point on
> I bought size 10 patterns with basically the same measurements as the old
> size 12, so the pattern industry was just trying to stay on a par with
> RTW. But RTW continued the down-sizing phoniness.
>
>> I am having a hard time getting my mind around this "size
>> 2." Am I off base here?
>
> Not if it's a toddler size... ;-> Sheesh, my slender 11-year-old
> granddaughter wears a girl's size 10-12, and was able to purchase cute
> jacket in a teen shop in size "6". No adult woman is capable of wearing a
> *true* size 2, IMNSHO, that's just appealing to her vanity.
>
> Glad I sew...
>
> Beverly
>



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