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09/27/2006: "Vanity sizing sucks"
Song of the Day: Reina - Find Another Woman
Last year, I went to Express to buy a pair of dark brown corduroy pants. I grabbed the normal size that I've been wearing at Express for the last 5 years and went to the fitting room, fully expecting that they'd fit fine. I pulled them on...and discovered I had enough room to fit another leg in them.
I stepped out of the fitting room to ask the clerk for a smaller size, and she gave me a huge grin and said, "How exciting, you're down to a size 2!"
I was not down to a size 2, as all the perfectly-fitting size 4s in my closet gave testimony to. Those idiots simply made the size 2s bigger. In my mind, "exciting" means being able to rely on sizes to stay consistent at a store I've been shopping at for years. It's a pain in the ass to get a new size when you're half-naked in the fitting room, especially when fitting room clerks aren't available and you have to get re-dressed to go hunt the correct size down. I ran into the same thing at the Gap when I bought pants there this spring, and I started mourning the fact that my favorite stores were jumping on the vanity sizing bandwagon.
I say, cut the crap. You're not fooling anyone. Women's clothing sizes are confusing enough since there isn't a standard to go by (why can't we use inches like men do?), but individual stores could at least attempt to stay consistent.
Also, being down to a real size 2 would require me to be undernourished and probably possessing a failing immune system. How is that "exciting"?
Replies: 2 Comments
I wish we went by hip-waist measurements. No one would ever make pants for my proportions, but I can dream. :Dj!!, Wednesday, September 27th
There were no Express, The Limited, or VS stores in Hawaii. It was really upsetting.Tara, Thursday, October 5th