Shopping for jeans can be a soul destroying task.
Once you figure out what style you’re after: straight, skinny, boyfriend, flared, cropped, ripped, maybe even asymmetric (???), you’re left to deal with an equally as confusing question: What size?
Because the likelihood of picking ‘your size’ off the shelf, trying them on and having them fit perfectly is… zero.
That just does not happen.
Because jean sizing is confusing, inconsistent and usually downright wrong.
Nothing has presented this as accurately as a photo by Twitter user Chloe Martin, who shared an image of seven pairs of jeans.
Seven pairs of jeans that are all labelled size 12, but vary in size so dramatically it’d be comical if it didn’t make jean shopping such a god damn painful experience.
Behold:
Incase you’ve ever wondered why women get so frustrated with our clothing sizes – every pair of jeans pictured, is a size 12 pic.twitter.com/V88JAPQZTI
— c (@chloemmx) March 8, 2019
Top Comments
Markets provide what people want. For women it seems to be important to fit to a specific size even though nobody else will know the size marking. This means that as women get bigger sizes will also get bigger.
men's sizing is based on actual measurements [inches in the US]
i have yet to find anyone who can tell me what those numbers on women's clothing relate to