Do you get annoyed with being a differed size in every clothes shop? Do you get really excited to find out you are a smaller size than you thought, only to find that their sizes are just different? I have been there. During my weight loss, I would use shopping for new clothes as a guide to how “well” I was doing with losing weight. When I could finally buy clothes in a certain store, or I was a size smaller in my favourite store, I felt like THAT was and achievement. Little did I know then, but all the sizes are actually different. So, that smaller size I was so happy to finally be in was actually my “normal” size, but with a smaller number on it. Ignore the clothes size and concentrate on your measurements. Don’t refuse to buy something because of the number on the label. If the clothes fit, and you know your measurements have not gone up, then don’t beat yourself up about it – that store just has different sizes than you are used to. That still doesn’t help all of us that get angry about not knowing what size we are in each shop though. There is now a website created by a computer programmer with a passion for fashion, where you can enter your measurements and it will tell you what size you are in what shop (you can choose between UK and US shops at the top). It is amazing that I put my measurements in and I am anything from a small UK 6 (US 2) to a UK 12 (US 8). I kind of knew that already as my wardrobe is full of a range of sizes. I once tried on a UK size 8 dress in TK MAXX and it was HUGE, so I tried on the 6, just out of interest and even that was too big and I am DEFINITELY not a UK size 4, it was just the designers clothes were VERY generous. I don’t let a size on a clothes label define how I feel about myself and this website proves why. What are your thoughts on how clothes sizes differ? Let us know! It is not always going to be exact, as some people are going to enter their measurements and it will say they are a certain size in a shop, when they are currently wearing a different size from that shop. But that is just because some people like their clothes tighter/baggier than others. But, the website is good as a general guide. Take a look at the website yourself and see how your size differs: CLICK HERE
