Womens Cycling Clothing Runs Small!

[OakLeaf]

I would've said just the opposite ... there are few remaining brands of cycling clothes that retain honest sizing. I actually wouldn't have thought PI was among them, but I know even within manufacturers, different articles are sized differently.

I bought a pair of Lucky brand jeans last week on the recommendations of y'all. I asked for a size 6, which is the last size jeans I bought, even though I'm the same size or just slightly bigger on the bottom as 20 years ago when I wore a 12. (Before my time, when "Misses'" sizes were introduced, a 12 would've been the size of an average 12-year-old girl.)

Well, in 2011 Lucky brand sizing, I wear a 2. If I survive another 20 years and keep my current measurements, I guess that means I'll be wearing a negative 8.

I much more appreciate my Large LG shorts. No, I don't like the fact that I take a Large, but I know very well that at my size (29" waist, 37.5" hips), Large is what I ought to be wearing. I'm not huge, but I am chunky, I have some fat to lose before I look the same as the "average" woman lining up at a starting line next to me, and I appreciate LG's honesty.

Yes, people are getting bigger, and I don't mean (only) the obesity "crisis" - people worldwide are getting taller, bigger boned, more muscular. I don't think apparel companies need to revise their sizes every five minutes. Some of them probably need to make things in larger sizes. They don't need to call the larger sizes something different from what they are - IMO.