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Fashion for Nonhumans

How To Tell What Dress Size You Are (Hint: You Can’t)

by Susana Polo | 11:43 am, April 28th

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To accompany an article about various businesses’ increasingly complicated efforts to give women some kind of way to easily tell what size they are in any given brand, the New York Times prepared this infographic featuring all the different kinds of ways that you can be a size 8, from a 26 1/2 inch waist, to a 31 inch waist. Full pic below.

(via Lifehacker.)

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  • http://twitter.com/NuttyLizard Gina

    This isn’t just limited to dresses. It’s a problem all over the place. I have two size *mumble* jeans from a few years ago. One pair i still wear. The other I can barely get over my hips, let alone try to get closed. Can we just switch to a system like men’s sizes please?

  • elsewhere

    This is just my experience, but men’s sizes don’t work for those with a large waist-to-hip disparity. I have a 28-inch waist, but my 42-inch hips will laugh uproariously if I try that size. Depending on the manufacturer and cut, I’m anywhere from a 31 to a 34 waist. I have to try on just as many as I do playing the women’s sizes roulette.

  • http://profiles.google.com/viciousmarblecat Emma Jones

    Which is why there needs to be cheaper tailoring.

  • http://profiles.google.com/joanna.moylan Joanna Moylan

    Yeah women aren’t that simple to size up. We come in all shapes and sizes. Some are large in top and small below while others are the opposite. Generally with guys, all size 40′s fit into all size 40′s. Women have issues with stuff not fitting right due to breast size, waist size, hip size etc. There is no black and white with us unfortunately. We’re a whole spectrum sizes.

  • http://anothernotebook.tumblr.com kalsangikid

    This is another reason I sometimes shop in the children’s section. This and the fact that they get X-Men on their T-shirts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613981127 Abby Milberg

    Yeah this is incredibly annoying. I have jeans in a size 6 and jeans in a size 12, both of which fit me perfectly. Can we try for a BIT of consistency, please?