As I told you yesterday, I'm back on the 'lifestyle eating plan' to shed a few kilos (target 67 by end of May 2013). However before Christmas, I desperately needed to buy myself a new wardrobe, so I headed to a shop, tried on a few too many items, and somehow walked out of a shop $1400 poorer and 12 new garments. Considering I had only replaced my jeans throughout the year, I decided 'why not?' and just did it.
The weird thing was, as I bought everything from the same shop, I came out with 3 different size clothes. Sizes 12, 14 & 16. Most were size 12, which shocked me, knowing that I was a size 12 in most my clothes when I was 8-10 kilos lighter, however my ass made my pants that little bit bigger. But even when I went to try on jeans only months beforehand, I went to one shop, tried on 2 different styles of jeans - one style I was almost heartbroken because I couldn't get the Size 16 jeans past my thighs, but when I tried on a Size 13 pair of jeans in a different style, they fitted like a glove. How can this be so?
It makes you think why women are so confused about body shape, hung up on dress sizes and afraid of shopping when they have put on a few extra kilos, because the retail outlets and manufacturers have no idea about consistency. Or is it their ploy to make all women less interested in size and more interested in feeling comfortable and proud of who they are?
The boutique I splashed out at was a dedicated Australian owned, Australian manufacturing women's retailer, so knowing that I was supporting the local economy was a good reason to spend more than I really wanted to. But it doesn't justify why their sizing is all over the place. What happened to Australian/International standards? And how can anyone suggest that my F cup boobs fit into any top that's a size 12 and be baggy? What other types of 'Size 12' women are there, as they definitely don't cater for F cups readily in the bra department (I usually have to go to a specialised bra manufacturer). And since when should a Size 12 women's BMI be sitting on the edge of 'Overweight and Obese?' Size 12 used to be a size that suggested that you were a comfortable size - not skinny model making material, but not holding up a muffin top. I have the muffin top, so how can I be a size 12?
Marilyn Monroe was said to be the poster girl for Size 12. But she was reported to weigh about 54kgs. I'm sorry, but that's 30kgs less than what I weigh at the moment! (now there's some honesty!) I found an article that states that after measuring her clothes, her clothes would be what we could consider being a Size 8-10 now, but the same article also says that due to 'vanity sizing' sizes that 'today's size 10 is smaller than the size 10 from 50 years ago.' How can that be? If Monroe was a size 12 back then, and I'm a size 12 now, that would mean that I should be 50kgs, not 84! Her measurements were said to be 36-23-37. My bra size is a 34F, which means that I am smaller than Marilyn in the back, but when I measure them with a tape measure, I'm 40 inches in the back. So why has my Australian owned, Australian manufacturing bra company deceived me into thinking that I'm 6 inches less in the back than I really am?
Clothing manufacturers need to stop deceiving women and possibly men into thinking they are smaller than they actually are. I would rather be told that I'm a Size 20 and do something about it because it's demoralising being that size, than wear mislabelled size 12 clothes that make me think that it's ok to eat that extra piece of chocolate cake because I'm a size 12, so I'm not that fat.
And you wonder, why there's an obesity epidemic!!!
Source:
http://www.examiner.com/article/health-weight-how-big-was-marilyn-monroe-what-size-dress-did-she-wear
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