And people wonder…
…why it is I hate to shop for clothes.
Well, take a look…Here is a standard size chart for the US. It’s not guaranteed that this is how all US clothes are designed; but, it’s pretty much spot on for the majority of off the rack items in the US.
| U.S. Misses Sizes | ||||||||||||
| Sizes | XS | S | M | L | ||||||||
| 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | ||||||
| Bust | 31.5″-32″ | 32.5″-33″ | 33.5″-34″ | 34.5″-35″ | 35.5″-36″ | 36.5″-37″ | 37.5″-38.5″ | |||||
| Waist | 23.25″-24″ | 24.5″-25″ | 25.5″-26″ | 26.5″-27″ | 27.5″-28″ | 28.5″-29″ | 29.5″-31″ | |||||
| Hips | 33.25″-34″ | 34.5″-35″ | 35.5″-36″ | 36.5″-37″ | 37.5″-38.5″ | 39″-40″ | 40.5″-41″ | |||||
The coloured cells are my measurement ranges. Nuff said?
It was kinda nice when low rider jeans came into style – though it took me quite a while to adjust to it. I kept trying (and still find myself doing it sometimes) to tug my jeans up. I can much more readily buy off the rack items and not have to deal with the scrunching and bunching of the waist with the low riders…but, things are inching back up again. If you notice the fashions coming out to the mainstream waist lines are slowly coming back to to being **gasp** waist lines. This does not bode well for my future clothes shopping endeavors in the US.
Chart courtesy of About.com
