That dress is so awesome and it suits you so much. :surprised:

That dress is really pretty.

 

 

 

I got myself a summer dress :nice:

 

 

 

I love it :nice:

Cute dress! :) I really love the bottom of the dress, too. That it's like, a tulip skirt. Nice. And the print is great, too.

That dress is really pretty.

 

 

 

I got myself a summer dress :nice:

 

 

 

I love it :nice:

 

 

Love, love, love it so much! It looks really good on you! :nice:

Nice dress

bought this dress yesterday.. i also already tried it when i had a wild night out last night :wacko:

 

 

pretty dress!!

same to you Emma!!

I especially love the bottom of your dress Emma. :wacky:

that!!^

my new sunglasses...

 

I just had photo session in my bathroom (the best lights)

 

Bathrooms always have the best light.

thank you :nice:

it was super cheep too :awesome:

 

 

 

and yes! bathroom light is the best ^

I bought this dress today to wear to the fancy(ish) dinner on the band trip next week!

 

^^Ooh, that's really cute. :) Love that print!

I love that dress! :cheesy:

Why your Size 10 dress may actually be a Size 12

 

 

By Fay Schlesinger

Last updated at 12:34 PM on 19th April 2010

 

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For anyone who has been pleasantly surprised to find they can squeeze into a Size 12, it may come as something of a disappointment.

A study has revealed shoppers are being deceived by a ploy called 'vanity sizing', in which stores flatter their customers by making clothes bigger so they think they are buying a smaller size.

Several major high street shops - including Marks & Spencer and Gap - appear to have made their measurements larger despite size labels remaining the same.

 

 

 

 

Vanity sizing: A size 10 in Topshop, left, is likely to be much smaller than one in M&S (modelled by Dannii Minogue, right) which attracts a more mature customer

 

 

And the study found sizes vary wildly from store to store, depending on the type of customer who shops there.

A Size 10 in Topshop - a favourite of teenagers and women in their 20s - is likely to be much smaller than one in Zara, which attracts a more mature customer.

 

 

 

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M&S insists it has not changed its 'block sizes' - the patterns given to suppliers - since 2003. However, it admitted sizes on its website have been 'tweaked' and measurements increased by up to two inches, the equivalent to an extra dress size.

Slim fit: Gemma Seager, who is a standard size 14, in her size ten Marks & Spencer dress

 

Gemma Seager, who runs the fashion blog Retro Chick, is a Size 14 with Size 18 hips. But the 30-year- old, from Norwich, can fit into smaller sizes in many shops.

 

She told the Sunday Times: 'Under the British standard sizing chart my measurements would make me a Size 14 but in reality I wear a 12 in most shops and the M&S dress I bought is a size ten.

'The chart gives me hips on the lower end of a Size 18 even though, when I was two stone heavier, I never once bought an item of clothing in a size bigger than a 16.'

An M&S spokesman said: 'We are not sweetening the sizes or softening the blow for anyone but we tweaked the sizes on our website so they are based on an average body.'

A spokesman for John Lewis said it followed sizing guidelines and Gap said that its sizes 'depend on the fit and style'.

THE RISE OF VANITY SIZING

 

• A Marks & Spencer size 16 has risen from 38in at the bust, 31.5in at the waist and 41in at the hips in 2003 to 39.5-33-43 today
  
• An M&S size ten has increased from 33.5-27-36.5 to 34-27-37
  
• A John Lewis size 12 was 35.5-28-38 in 2008 but is now 36-30-38.5
  
• Gap has expanded its size 14 from 37-29-39 two years ago to 37.5-29.5-40
  
• The waist of a pair of men's French Connection slim-fit jeans was found to be six inches bigger than the advertised 30in
  
• The waist of a size 12 skirt can vary from 28in at Next to 29in at Topshop, while a size eight bust is 31.5in at John Lewis but 38in in Gap
  

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1267074/Why-size-dress-actually-size-12.html#ixzz0lZT5C98t

I heard about that. ^

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I can't find anything nice to wear recently....I am just....too fat.....I mean I feel like I am too fat for everything I'd love to wear....ahhhh...:bomb:

 

:uhoh:

It's the same with men's clothes with variable sizing :(

it really sucks....I feel like there is nothing for me to wear this year....last year it was different booooo....:dozey:

The size thing can be really annoying. I went to Peacocks to buy trousers for because I had no money and they're sizes are just massive. I tried on a size 8 and it like two sizes to big. :dozey:

As long as the clothes fit, what does it matter?:dozey:

As long as the clothes fit, what does it matter?:dozey:

 

It does matter if you're ACTUALLY a size 8 or 10 and you can't find no clothes that fit you because they decided to make their sizes bigger.

@Mark: Yeah, but when you buy the clothes online it's really important ;)

As long as the clothes fit, what does it matter?:dozey:

 

It matters a lot if you buy a very expensive dress through an online-only store.

It does matter if you're ACTUALLY a size 8 or 10 and you can't find no clothes that fit you because they decided to make their sizes bigger.

 

But surely you can try them on first if you're in a shop?:confused:

But surely you can try them on first if you're in a shop?:confused:

 

Not if you buy it online.

This!