Vanity sizing, is best explained by associate professor, and chair of fashion at the State University of New York, Lynn Boorady, who said that its the artificial lowering of the size on the label, with the intention of appealing to the customer's vanity.
A recent study, looked at a thousand pairs of size 4 pants, and found as much as an eight and a half inch waist differential between them. That's right, it's not you, it's the women's clothing industry, the women's clothing sizes, which are extremely inconsistent.
The problem doesn't start here though, it goes way back. Readymade clothes were initially used by soldiers, for their uniforms. Assuming the soldiers bodies were in proportion, their chest sizes were enough to determine measurements of the rest of their body. But for women, no single measurement could be used to predict the rest of their measurements.Due to the varying chest and hip sizes, it was much harder to summarize with a single number.
When the first standardizing chart for women came out in 1958, it was mostly built out of poor, malnourished caucasian women. Now that there is a much wider Demographic to cover, the retailers are picking a certain group of people to sell to, honing in what works with that group and what doesn't. This means that even brands owned by the same company, will have inconsistent sizes.
From 1958 till 2011, the smallest size for women's clothing, has gone down from a size 8 to a size double 0. So when Abercrombie &Fitch,Code or Banana Republic decides to make a dress, they're thinking about a specific body type, not about mine or yours. The problem isn't women's bodies, we are fine just the way we are, these are just random numbers that mean absolutely nothing, put in place, to appeal to us. So if we don't like the number printed on the tag, we take a pair of scissors, and just cut it off.
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