Stop the sizing madness!!!

[Zen]

...I usually wear an 8, as I said. My daughter and I went shopping for work clothes this weekend -- Ann Taylor Loft -- I tried on an 8 skirt and it was too big. I bought the 6!! I wore it today, and even that was SLIGHTLY BIG IN THE WAIST! The sweater that I bought is a small, and even that was a little roomy on me today. I AM 5'4" AND 145 LBS. TODAY. I AM NOT A VERY SMALL PERSON!!!!!!!!!...

Ann Taylor is a rather high end store (to me anyway) and the higher end retailers usually run smaller.
I believe this is whats known as "ego sizing".

[Bikingmomof3]

Ann Taylor is a rather high end store (to me anyway) and the higher end retailers usually run smaller.
I believe this is whats known as "ego sizing".

They must because I just bought a summer dress from them and it is a size 4. Honestly my shoulders, for those who have seen them, are not a size 4. But it looks good on the tag, right?

[bmccasland]

and another example of the maddness - I'm supposed to order a work related polo type shirt, and when I looked at the sizing chart it gave the measurements of the shirt (width from seam to seam) . So now I get to go home and measure another polo shirt that fits comfortably to see what it's chest measurement is! I have never seen clothes sizes given in the width from seam to seam.

One time, Pre-K, I went to one of those high end boutiques just to see what they had, and the designer had her own sizing. So I'm looking for something in the 8-10-12 range (my "normal" size) only to discover that translates to her size 2. Gaak! If sizing wasn't confusing enough!!!

Does anyone else out there remember when ladies blouses and dresses were sold by bust size? If you wore a size 34 bra, then you wore a size 34 blouse.