Why do brand size charts give numbers way smaller than normal clothes?
Brand-specific size charts often point to measurements that result in a much smaller size than standard retail clothing, leaving buyers confused about what size to actually order. This mismatch makes standard sizing unreliable and stops people from being able to trust or use online measurements to buy clothes that fit.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Go off of the largest side any of your measurements match to
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“when I was young, and had a 27 inch waist, I was a size 6-8. So yeah I agree this size chart is a little weird”source ↗
tiger_guppy · r/weddingplanning · 1 upvotes
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