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Fashion Blog (Archive)
Monday, December 01, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
10:38 AM (Pacific)
Sizes were deregulated at one point. I mean the numbered sizes. That was quite a while ago.
For me it's good. The shirt sizes of yore never fit me. If they fit in the bust, then the sleeves were too long. And the pants...they used to sell pants unhemmed. I loathe putting up pants, it never looks right.
Then...just recently...there has been talk of "vanity sizing." i.e. a size 10 now is larger than a size 10 before. And...some shops have even gone to an entirely different scale. You can be size 0, size 2, size 4...it's insane.
I tend to go by brand. Gap and Old Navy jeans do not fit me. The butt isn't right. Likewise Geoffrey Beene.
But Limited, Express, Levi's, J.Crew, Land's End, Guess!, Calvin Klein...those are all good for me.
Guess! are kinda interesting...they're cut differently from all the rest. I'd say for more of an hourglass figure.
Levi's--now those are for people with small butts.
Limited, Express, J.Crew, Land's End...to me they're quite similar. More for an average type figure...forgiving, flattering, versatile.
The Levi's and CK's imo, are the most androgynous, the most like the '70's style of jeans (keep in mind that Levi's ruled the jeans world back then).
Limited, Express, J.Crew, Land's End...more feminine.
Guess!--completely feminine.
:) I've never owned colored jeans either, unless you count black. I have some black Guess! ones. Then I have an overdyed(?) Levi's Silver Tab. It's more of an intense blue than plain denim.
The rest of them are all regular denim...some are that light colored denim.
--J.
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