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question about jeans size Posted: 02-17-08 18:59pm
Um well, I am 14 years old, and i weigh
105 pounds and I am 5'3. I wear a size 5
jean, but I have the body measurments if a
size 0-1 but i only have 2 pairs of pants
which are 0;s are they are not jeans.
So i have 2 questions:
1) just for the reasurence, is a size 5
big fo rmy height, weight, age, because
all of my friends are like 00's!
2) why am i a 5 when my measurments are a
0-1?
i dont know why, but I feel that i am
fat...
i hate my legs.
thank you very much
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-18-08 01:05am
It does seem extremely strange you're in
5's, because I'm your size and I'm usually
in 3's or 1's.
HOWEVER, it may be due to several factors:
your thighs, hips, butt, and the shape of
your lower back! My butt has gotten bigger
over the years. Most 1's no longer fit,
and 0's? HA!! I haven't "gained weight",
it has simply settled itself down into a
plump rump. I'm 23 by the way.
A size 5 obviously isn't "too big" if
that's what fits your body.
YOU ARE NOT FAT. Child, you and I have a
BMI of 17!!! That's classified as
"threatened underweight"!!! We be
SKINNY!!!! We are the people that models
WISH they could look like.
Why are you a 5 in the store and a 1 with
measuring tape? Because the clothing
industry is wonky, that's why. Just buy
pants that fit and forget about it.
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Lion79
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Posted: 02-18-08 05:07am
Do you buy designer jeans? I dunno about
sizes in the US but generally when I try
on designer jeans I have to get a couple
sizes bigger and they never fit right.
They're VERY small fitting. I once tried
on a pair of designer jeans and they
wouldn't fit around my hips so I had to
get a bigger size, and same thing
happened, so I got up to a size 14 (I'm
usually a 10/12) and they were still too
small! The silly thing is that if they fit
higher around my waist they would've fit
because my hips are a lot wider. I
eventually gave up because the bigger it
got the longer the legs were, and I've
only got short legs. They're made to fit
one type of body shape, and that's skinny,
long legs and no curves.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-18-08 11:33am
I always have problems with pants being so
long. I'm only 5'4" ish and 100 lbs, so
yeah. Pants are too long, lol. I can't
imagine how gross a woman 3 inches taller
than me with my width waist must look.
Honestly, Ick!!
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bakin_april
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Posted: 02-18-08 11:52am
Sometimes a different brand that fits
great is a different size than what you
normally wear. In fact, it's pretty
common. So please don't get hung up on
numbers.
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Biani
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Posted: 02-18-08 12:04pm
I agree... the sizing of jeans is out of
whack. I have jeans that range from size 3
to size 9! Weird thing is, the size 3 are
just a little bit loose on me, just like
the size 9. Most my jeans are size 5 or 7
though, which strangely enough are the
ones that fit snug.
But when it comes to casual pants, uhm...
that's what they're called? Well, the kind
that you would wear to work and such, i
have to get a size 2. Or even 0. If i get
a size 5 i usually drown in those. I came
to learn it was because apparently the
size of the jeans are for 'juniors',
whereas the dressier pants were made for
'misses'. Misses are supposed to be
'grown', and juniors are expected to be
more waifish, or can be expected to be a
lot thinner than a fully grown woman.
So, Candy, don't worry about it. It just
may be because of the brand/type of jeans
you're buying. You sound like you're
really thin.
On my case, i actually feel bad when i
have to get a size 2 or smaller, i feel so
skinny!!! I actually like feeling
'normal', haha.
Just curious, Eiri, how wide is your
waist?
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-18-08 12:14pm
I don't know. I think I'm 32/24/34
(chest/waist/butt-hips) but I honestly
haven't measured in aaages. I bet my butt
is bigger than that right now lol. More
like 36!
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Biani
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Posted: 02-18-08 12:33pm
Haha, it just made me think... could I
look like this freak she speaks of? lol
You said you couldn't imagine how a woman
who's 3 inches taller than you and with
your same width would look. I thought
maybe like me! lol And I don't think I
look that bad, sure, skinny, but... lol
I'm 5'8", 120 lbs, and 32-25-36.5, so,
almost the same as you, but stretched
vertically, haha.
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Posted: 02-18-08 13:52pm
im 17, 5'3" and 118 lbs. i am never the
same size in diffferent brands of jeans.
even two different styles of the same
brand of jeans can fit me differently. ill
be a 3 in one style and a 5 in another!
its annoying!
dont worry about your pant size. i have
one pair of random pants thats a size 1. i
never fit into that size in any other
jeans. others im at least a 3. or designer
things like american eagle, im between a 0
and a 4.
my boyfriend doesnt understand why i have
such hard times with buying pants. he goes
in, finds his 28x32s and buys them. no
fair!
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Biani
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Posted: 02-18-08 15:04pm
lol. I get that from my boyfriend too
LadyAllie. He just sees that they're
30x32, he gets his wrist-to-elbow in the
pants waist, if it fits there, it fits
him. He buys them, and voila!
Me, on the other hand, i grab the same
pants in a 5 and a 7, and try them on. And
take a lot of time looking at myself in
the mirror, from behind, from a side,
sitting down (to see if the seems ride up
too much or if it shows panties from
behind)... well, there's a LOT of little
details to consider for us, for them it's
SO easy. No fair, i agree!
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CANDYxoxLOVER
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Posted: 02-18-08 19:30pm
thanks guys
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-19-08 00:56am
Biani
wrote:
Haha, it just made me
think... could I look like this freak she
speaks of? lol
You said you couldn't imagine how a woman
who's 3 inches taller than you and with
your same width would look. I thought
maybe like me! lol And I don't think I
look that bad, sure, skinny, but... lol
I'm 5'8", 120 lbs, and 32-25-36.5, so,
almost the same as you, but stretched
vertically,
haha.
You're not the same weight though lol. So
I'm sure it looks normal.
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Biani
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Posted: 02-19-08 12:30pm
Well, no... if i was the same weight i
would have to be narrower than you. 4 more
inches of bone have to weigh something,
lol.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-19-08 18:37pm
Lol, or be anorexic which is what I was
aiming at heh.
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Posted: 02-20-08 06:19am
I concur with the others that women's jean
sizing is terrible. So I have to ask do
you wear that range in one brand or
several and also are they different cuts?
I am 5'6 130 lbs (give or take a few
either way) and I wear the same cut of
jeans. But in several brands I will be a
size 8 or 8 P but in a few other brands a
size 6. So the sizing system is very
inconsistent across the board.
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-20-08 11:40am
I'm pretty consistently a 3 these days.
I've had a 5 I could wear.
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CANDYxoxLOVER
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Posted: 02-20-08 11:45am
I think that we get like this wrong idea
of whats skinny because so meany people
are like 0's or even 00's which is too
skinny!! (no offence to ppl who are that
size, please:) ) but you can still be
small and healthy, but its like if you
compare yourself to thoes people you seem
to look bigger which is what i hate
because all of my friends are sooo small,
and when we where the same jeans or
something i look so big compared to them
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Biani
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Posted: 02-20-08 12:15pm
I've seen jeans that are a size 0, I
wonder how people fit in there, they look
so tiny!!! But I guess the ones that wear
those are very short as well, so i guess
they look thin but normal.
I know what you mean about comparing
yourself... but I actually feel good when
i think i look 'fatter' than someone else.
I don't like it when people make me feel
sooo skinny! I have a friend who looks
thin, well, not fat.. lol, but she has
massive legs and butt, she's very curvy,
and I feel like a twig beside her. When
normally and beside any other woman, I
feel normal, I know I'm thin, but I do
have curves too, even if they're small,
haha. I recently told my sister about
this, and she scolded me for comparing
myself to others
I know we should be comfortable in our
skin and shape, but sometimes other people
can make you feel short, tall, fat or
skinny in comparison. I think you feel
'fat' because your friends are so skinny.
You're probably thin but in a more
'normal' way.
Candy, i have a question... I didn't quite
understand the part where you said you
have the measurements of a 0-1. How do you
know which measurements correspond to what
size? What are your measurements?
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Tylanas
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Posted: 02-20-08 12:24pm
You measure with a tape-measure and then
there are charts online that tell you "if
you have a 36 inch waist you are a size
Blah".
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Biani
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Posted: 02-20-08 13:09pm
Oh, really? I'll see what size I'm
supposed to be then... thanks Eiri.
