They're literally conspiring against you
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Not just a women problem, my own jeans are 32. My workout pants are M, my work pants are size 50.
Shoes should be standardized, i have pair of converse size 39 and a pair of nike jordan's (possibly fake, not sure got them as a gift from a friend) size 44. I'm usually a 42 or 42,5.
Oh so I know about the shoe one. The sizes are standardised in length but not in width so you can have narrow fit and need a larger length in one shoe, or wide fit and a shorter length in a different shoe.
So the shoes are standardised (sort of, Europe and the US have 2 different standardised systems), but the standard is so confusing it may as well not be a standard.
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Not limited to gender. I'm stronger built than the average man and have to live with too long XXL jeans with too less ass.
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The employee told me that there are tons of other men having the same problem at that store. Just because 80% of your customers wear L or larger doesn’t mean you shouldnt stock any inventory for the 20% that wear S or M.
Oh, they are just minmaxing you out. I'm not in retail, but my manager always tells me to only go for the easy 80%
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It's not a women's problem it's just a clothing problem in general.
I was extremely upset the other day to find out that I need an extra large in shirts at this one store. Apparently in Next if you are tall you must also be fat other body types are impossible.
And yes I have also seen the same cut in the same store but two different colours be different sizes for the same declared size.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Womens clothing tends to be worse as even more expensive clothes are sold by dress size or the generic small/medium large and only a limited number of items offer any build variations for an item. Next typically offer a petite and a tall range for some items, but not for all and they quite rare in high street retailers offering that.
Men you tend to find a waist, length, chest, neck measurement in cm/inches, which is far more useful. A lot, but not all, of trousers with actual measurement on them also offer different lengths, and in some cases different cuts (jeans are very good for this).
Nexts shirts, like a lot of high street fashion, have two broad ranges for men, casual and formal. The former is shit for sizing as its the small/medium rubbish that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, not least because the arms are always too fucking narrow for my arms. The latter most definitely comes in a range of body fits and actual measurements.
The best clothing is sold by the actual measurements of the garment so you can actually compare against stuff that actually fits you. I typically get stuff tailored from there as I buy larger to fit my chest/shoulders and its too long. Its not expensive (about £15 for a t shirt) if you are not buying endless fast fashion garbage and buy stuff to last instead.
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i am simply too impatient to buy tight or normal fitting clothing - i just buy loose M or L everything and eyeball if it should be M or L, bonus points for drawstrings but i do also own belts so anything will do.
besides, finding a well fitting pair of jeans is borderline impossible for me, because: 1. i'm a guy 2. i'm short 3. i have a big ass. those 3 combined seemingly make me a mythical creature, clothes designers don't seem to even be capable of thinking to make jeans that'd fit me well.
jeans that fit my ass and are short enough? guess i don't get to have pockets (because i'd need to buy in the women's section)
guy design and big ass variant? baggy on the rest of my legs & now i need to cut them to walk
guy design & good lenghts for my legs? my ass doesn't fit
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Not limited to gender. I'm stronger built than the average man and have to live with too long XXL jeans with too less ass.
I'm tall and thin. A pullover size M fits perfectly, but i need the arms of a L pullover. I have a Pullover size M that is bigger than my other L pullovers. I bought a Pullover size M with nice arms, but the rest is velly free. And that are not cheap chinese clothes where ut's notmal that an XL is a M. I just don't understand.
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Not just a women problem, my own jeans are 32. My workout pants are M, my work pants are size 50.
Shoes should be standardized, i have pair of converse size 39 and a pair of nike jordan's (possibly fake, not sure got them as a gift from a friend) size 44. I'm usually a 42 or 42,5.
For 20 years i buy pants size 32. They always fit. But yeah, somehow my work pants are size 46 to 48 for some reason. M is often to big on the waist and S is tiny.
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Just buy in Temu, they put these BS sizes but there's always a chart in cm so if you know your numbers you get it right.
Same thing when I wanted Business shirts. Where I live it's all s m l bulshit. I went to Macy's online and they sell most brands by 3 measures I think, can't remember, it's collar size, arm length in inches. Well worth the international shipping fees for a week's worth of shirts. Now I mostly work from home, I think they'll last until I retire lol
Support slave owners and fuck the planet is a wild suggestion.
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The last time I went shopping for pants it took a fabric tape measure.
Even as a guy, every pair was six to ten inches larger than listed in the waist.
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Support slave owners and fuck the planet is a wild suggestion.
Thinking again, I'll grow my own cotton and assemble my own spinning thing to make yarn. I'll be back in a year.
