Standardise Womens Clothing Sizes – I have blogged a couple of times about the difference in clothing sizes depending on what you buy and where you buy it from. It is OK when you get an idea of how clothing sizes run for you (ASOS are very generous, I find Yours Clothing a little small) but it is a pain!
Standardise Womens Clothing Sizes
When I order something online, I want to know it is going to fit. I don’t want to have to wait to try it on to see if it fits as it should, whether it’s too baggy (ha ha) or whether I need to send it back for having it too small. I didn’t realise until quite recently that there is no industry standard for clothing sizes. In essence, clothing shops can put whatever size labels they want on their clothes, there are no rules!
So imagine my excitement this afternoon when I was tweeted by the Curvacsous Collective about their campaign to standardise womens clothing sizes in the UK! I am SO excited about this and can’t stress enough what a good idea I think it is. I think standardising clothing sizes would lead to so much easiness and feeling better when you are clothing shopping. I know how upsetting it can be when you don’t fit into your normal clothes size and have to ‘size up’ – more often than not this is because of the cut/fit/size of the clothing rather than you having actually put on any weight.
I have signed the campaign and honestly think everyone else should too!
What do you think? Is this something you would like to see more of?
Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.
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