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Thread: Stop the sizing madness!!!
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06-06-2007, 08:17 PM #1
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06-16-2007, 01:30 PM #2
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Actually part of the reason we are getting thicker around the middle is due to the corset - or the lack thereof. (Now don't get me started on Spanx - those are a miracle garment if you are going to be wearing something clingy.)
I am also a fanatical sewer and I think the sewing sizes you see on patterns have been the same since the 70's. In ready-to-wear I'm now in a 6 or 8 (bottoms) but in a pattern I need to buy a 10 or 12.
And the term for the gradual enlarging of sizes is actually called "vanity sizing."
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