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[superbadgirl]

I stopped by Old Navy to pick up clothes for my sponsored kids. While there, I decided I'd buy a pair of jeans. I wear a certain size and have purchased pants there recently in said size.

But the new cuts of ON jeans are redonkulously small. I couldn't even zip the effers up! Comparing them to the certain size ON jeans I already own revealed that their new jeans sizes shave off three inches around the hip, and probably the waist.

Good grief. How is that going to help anyone? It can't be vanity sizing, or I'd suddenly be wearing a size smaller, not a size bigger, right? I confess I don't really understand vanity sizing. Just give us fucking measurements, mmkay?

Comments

[ozreison.livejournal.com]

It's the same reason why the shirts are all now see through. Less fabric = less money = lower cost. Everyone knows the sizing counts for nothing, so why bother going by that anyway? ;)

[superbadgirl]

But what about the poor women who used to wear the largest size ON offers? They're going to find their jeans elsewhere and cost ON profit.

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Every cutter uses a different base block, so I presume they've switched production to another factory...

Clothing sizes have NEVER made any sense whatsoever - especially for women where bust size and hip ratio have no meaning in ready to wear sizing.

I've honestly thought the only way to go with sizing is to have a garment measures system where they state it's to fit a ?? hip cut with a fitting ease of ??

[superbadgirl]

ON recently redid their whole jeans line, so I wasn't expecting apples to apples, but yeesh. These are significantly smaller.

I don't even care about going up a size, knowing that they've shrunk things. It's that now I have to go back and do an exchange, when I should be able to pick up a size I've always worn and wear it.

pah.