Heartland

Can't someone please pass a law to standardize the sizes of cloathes

Jeans, I take a 38" waist.......pauses for sniggers!, I bought 2 pairs a few weeks a go on line, one pair were too small the other too big , I returned them, one for a 36" & one for a 40"!!, 4" difference

In waterproof coats I take a Large in a Barbour & Helly Hansen but a XL in a Musto.

I usually wear a fleece lined, nylon shelled smock thing in winter unless it's heavy rain, I need a XXXL in a Montane & only a Large in the equivalent Country Covers top, I've just got a Buffalo smock and needed a 52" chest ...........I'm a 47" chest!

It costs a bloody fortune in postage sending ill fitting stuff back

I believe there was a time, before all this internet malarkey, that people actually used to go into shops to buy their clothes.
Primitive by twenty-first century standards, I know, but I believe they even had rooms where you could try on the clothes to make sure they fit before buying them.

Make your own...I am being serious.

http://www.pennineoutdoor.co.uk/

They even do custom clothing make to measure.

Pat wrote:Make your own...I am being serious.

http://www.pennineoutdoor.co.uk/

They even do custom clothing make to measure.

Fuckin' Hell Pat , High Bentham in the nearest wee town from me, only 6 miles away, I never knew that shop existed!!! , I'll give them a look, cheers

@ Erudite, fair comment if you live near an outlet for a particular manafacturer, Country Cocers are in Devon, hardly a half hour trip from the Lancashire/Yorkshire/Cumbria border , Penrith is the nearest outlet for serious out door wear, an hour and a half each way

scotty wrote:Penrith is the nearest outlet for serious out door wear, an hour and a half each way

Penrith! PENRITH! If you're in that vicinity go to the Mardale Inn at St Patrick's Well, 15 inute drive south.

Erudite wrote:I believe there was a time, before all this internet malarkey, that people actually used to go into shops to buy their clothes.
Primitive by twenty-first century standards, I know, but I believe they even had rooms where you could try on the clothes to make sure they fit before buying them.

And clothes sizes were still based on post war measurements taken of people living on ration books

Explains why shops for the larger consumer are booming, while M&S try to turn a profit*.
















*scotty still likes the adverts though

[quote="Big Si"][quote="Erudite"]

Explains why shops for the larger consumer are booming, while M&S try to turn a profit*.


Aye, sadly the skinny short-arse shop has yet to open.

Tell me about it!

ditto!

What she said.

I usually go to Topshop every time I need something as I can rely on their sizes!

Can't you just buy stuff & boil it until it's the right size?

that doesn't work with rubber

emilystrange wrote:that doesn't work with rubber

emilystrange wrote:that doesn't work with rubber

nor leather

There goes my forlorn hope that womens clothing sizes-which have been wonky for years-would one day be as reliable as those for men.A 38 waist ought to be 38 inches-Why is this so difficult to get right?

I think it's that some shops have the absurd idea that marking clothes up at smaller sizes than they actually are will flatter the purchaser, who thinks "hey, I can get in a size *** after all!".

I can only assume that shops that do it the other way round are effectively saying "fück off you fat basŧard!"

Erudite wrote:
Aye, sadly the skinny short-arse shop has yet to open.

They really need to bring the skinny tall-arse shops here. Shopping for trousers is a pain in the arse

i'm (fairly) slim and of average height, but i likes my jeans with huuuuge turn-ups

it's quite tricky to get jeans in the uk that are 32 inch waist and a 38 leg

they only seem to go up to 32w/34l

if i want a 38 leg i have to ones with a 36 waiste, which look mahooosive

and don't even get me started with jeans shopping in the states... i ask for 32w there and they send me to the kids dept

What about odd-numbered sizes? I need a 33 inch leg but can only get 32 or 34. One's flapping around my ankles, the other drags down over my heels and gets all ragged. Bastards!

I shop (online of course) at Fück off you fat basŧard!

no complaints here

actually it's Cotton Traders

mh wrote:What about odd-numbered sizes? I need a 33 inch leg but can only get 32 or 34. One's flapping around my ankles, the other drags down over my heels and gets all ragged. Bastards!

turn-ups

sizes are all different country to country

make to make or label to label.

my hubby has a 35 w and 36 l. finding a pair of pants to fit is a nightmare.

my size is 34 w and no idea what length is but pants are always too long and so i need heels and also a belt size in the kid's department. unless you go to indian or italian shops, their ladies are more my height.

for the kids it's terrible...the length of my son's legs means he needs to wear a belt as his waist is tiny as is that of my daughter. buying in length sizes always means too big waist sizes and then just three months later, they have grown again and the pants are too short.

i hate shopping and go into shops cause we all have to fit!

Hollylicious wrote:

Erudite wrote:
Aye, sadly the skinny short-arse shop has yet to open.

They really need to bring the skinny tall-arse shops here. Shopping for trousers is a pain in the arse

FACT!

now when I come to think of it... it has been years since I last visited a shop.
all my pants are 'that old' and I buy my shirts at concerts

Quiff Boy wrote:it's quite tricky to get jeans in the uk that are 32 inch waist and a 38 leg

We wear our pants the same size

But yes, that size is a pain to find, luckily there are a couple of shops in town where you can get them on order, so I just go in and try a 32/shorty after which I order a 32/long enough

To get a proper size suit, however, is an even bigger problem I always need to get the legs and arms adjusted because I'd fit in the ones that are the correct length about a dozen of times