Figure this? May 9, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Nance , trackbackOkay, This is it. I am completely confused with clothing sizes.
I have been wearing Levi’s forever. I love the quality. Well, my favs just developed a hole in the knee. So I decided to go to Zafu.com and find what jeans would fit my figure best. You see, I have always loved 550 jeans. Mostly because I was overweight at a point and I felt that it was comfy and the legs were tapered so I thought (HA!) it showed off my nicely developed calves. Then, Chicagomama came along and pointed out that these are MomJeans. And I saw it. I really did! By going with a tapered leg, I was really showing the world I had a huge hip base! Oy! And I could never get the right length.
I found 2 different jeans that would "fit" my body. I then checked out the sizing. In the past, I have fit into Levi’s 4 & 6. This time, I decided to measure myself and go with the true numbers.
This is where I gets screwed up.
A Misses 6 and a Petite 8 have the EXACT SAME WAIST MEASUREMENT. I kid you not! The Petites run smaller than the misses size. So I decided to get myself one in petites (because it was on a $10 sale!) and one in Misses. The Misses I ordered at 6 Short (with a 30" inseam), The petites I ordered 8 medium (a 29.5" inseam). So I have a "larger" size in petites, but the Petite medium is SHORTER than the Misses.
You following all of this? Because I was so annoyed after 30 minutes of measuring, (having to drop my pants every time and getting lewd comments from Jay, who didn’t get that the "evil eye" was to get him to SHUT UP) that I finally said, Okay, I hate to see these numbers, but I know in my heart that these are the right ones for me.
I asked Jay if he wanted a pair. He said "Sure, get me 36×34 of the 501s" Sure… for men it is easy. But for women? UGH! I had his ordered in 2 minutes.
In addition to all of this, I discovered that Sears and Jc Penney’s offer Levi’s also, BUT (and here is the fun part) the SIZING IS DIFFERENT! One woman actually wrote in on the Sears site that she had a pair from Levis.com and she ordered two more, same size and color from Sears.com The Sears ones were of thinner material and LARGER than the ones from Levi’s. I believe it. I know that Home Depot and Lowe’s do this, they sell a cheaper quality item from a major manufacturer…. Now I know Levi’s does it too….
Just another annoyance in the world of being female….
I will get the jeans in a day or two. I’ll see how they fit!
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For a short while, Levis offered custom built jeans. I did it twice. The jeans did indeed fit very nicely, but in a way not…exactly. Can’t explain it. Anyway, I couldn’t believe they offered this option and it died after 2 years.
(you went into the LEVIS store where they measured your body and then input into the computer. 2 weeks later, your custom jeans showed up in the mail).
Sizes baffle me. Just baffle me. Different manufacturers use different sizes. Different stores have different sizes of the same manufacturer. Kids’ shoes start out at 1, go to 10, then start all over again at 1. Why?! And no-one makes skinny kids’ clothes, and no-one makes jeans that fit my voluptuous pear-shape.
JC Penney and Lands End both do custom-fit jeans. And there’s a place called (who’d've thunk it?) “Custom Jeans” on the web. I’m going to give these things a try.
Anyway, I feel your pain!
Jean shopping-arrgg! I finally decided to buy any jeans that fit me great,no matter WAHT they cost. The ones I found tht I love? Old Navy $25.00. So OI bought like 4 pairs and then this year went to buy more, and they don’t fit!! I feel your pain!
sizes are so strange….I have realized that a 14 regular and a 16 petite are also the same, which is wacky. And since I am short, the 16 petite (once I can get over the fact that 16 is “plus size”, but don’t get me started on that rant) fits much much better.
My adult years have found exactly ONE pair of jeans that I liked the look of. Of course, I was a lot thinner at the time, but Ann Taylor Loft had a pair of 10 Short jeans that were to die for. And I never found them again. Sigh.
I saw the custom jeans site, but still refuse to buy jeans that I can’t try on first. I went to our local Levi’s store where the owner fit me by sight! And I am not an easy fit - my hips are a 12 (14 on a bad day) but my length is 30″ (petite) and it varies from brand to brand…anyways, I ended up buying 3 pairs of jeans that day because they fit so well. I’m a believer, and will not be buying pants online any time soon…