I think Clothes are being Made Bigger Nowadays.

[c2b]

I have lost 60lbs. I think the maintenance bit is going to be an ongoing battle for life. When life gets tough I revert to food as my way of coping. Things have been very tough in recent weeks but amazingly I haven't put weight on. How I don't know because I have been making poor choices.

As for the hi-vis....lets just say you will see us coming

 

[jane]

well done for keeping it off during a hard period. that has to be a more valuable lesson than doing it when things are going well.

Re the high Vis---don't reckon you can be too high vis. Round us there are plenty of riders & few bridle paths.
I'm sure most drivers are v courteous btu just occasionally I see someone not slow,fail to give a wide enough berth or accelerate aggressively as they get past. Makes me want to spit.
Who had the roads for centuries before the car?

 

[wannabeminime]

Interesting!

Just found this about clothes sizing;

On the way at last, a dress size system that will really measure up | the Mail on Sunday

 

[jane]

Just read the article, thanks for the quote. It seems I was right. It's called 'vanity sizing' con you into believing your less fat than you really are & bingo you buy more clothes there.

 

[Sambucca]

I dont seem to find any consistency with clothes sizes at all.

I have spent time this weekend sorting my wardrobe to get rid of the items that are now too big. I have stuff from M&S in 20's that I cant get into yet, and yet also stuff from M&S where the 18's are a bit loose. I think the per una range does come up a little bit bigger as I have been wearing their size 18 jeans for a few weeks now, but a pair of size 20 jeans from M&S that I dug out (probably 5 years old) still have the tags on and I cant do them up.

Doesnt make any sense to me.

 

[Maintainer]

I'll go along with that. In my previous (aka "fat") life, I had a size 14 skirt from Richard Shops that I used for motivation and regularly tried it on. One Christmas at home in England, knowing that my size 14 skirt didn't fit, I was astonished to find that I could buy size 12s in England. I totally skipped size 14 as I had wrongly gauged my size.

I am still a size 12 but my measurements would no way have let me wear such a size a few years ago.

P.S. *that* size 14 skirt has a 28" waist! Something I still don't have!

 

[konakona]

All sizes are just really dodgy. I think the small sizes have got smaller, though. My mum has a size 6 evening dress from 10 years ago that is about the size of a size 8 dress today, and I can squeeze into despite being a 12. Bless her, she can't find trousers anymore, though.. so thinking about it that can't be right either. Has to wear kids sizes.

 

[jane]

That was pretty well my conclusion too, Dancing.
I've got 2prs M&S trews s14 from mid 1980's -no way would they do up at a time when my 2007 M&S s12 were loose enough for me to consider buying the size 10. The shape has altered too- waist size seems to have increased proprtionately more than hips IMHO.
What do you think?

 

[hottot]

ahhhhhhhhhhh but ure not a size 12 till you can get a pair of size 12 jane norman jeans on........thats my rule anyway.....

 

[jane]

Jane Who?
Probably Showing my age, my lack of cool & my provinciality here but...

 

[Isis]

Jane Who?
Probably Showing my age, my lack of cool & my provinciality here but...

I'm showing the same then Jane

 

[acornpink]

Here I'm back same weight as before and started w.w this time hope I do as well as before I feel so fat and unhealthy I need to do something cos I'm going to a wedding in May 2015 and all the beautiful people are so thin and I don't want to be the whale in the corner