Use of the ’size’ system in US stores is inconsistent. It’s not a single, transarent, system. Not a system? You have to look at the clothes and ‘guess’ based on your knowledge of your own body-shape.
See examples of three ‘fitted’ items that all fit me:
I recently risked buying a t-shirt online. Ordered ‘Medium’ to be ’safe’. Its an American Eagle type ‘Medium’ size only just big enough for the dudes. Maybe American Eagle is implying that only really slim people shop here.
American Eagle: “Wendy, you are a medium on the really thin scales“
You’ve got to look right to be a customer at some Amercian shops. The Nitwit points out Abercombie and Fitch has this discriminatory (targeting marketing?) behaviour when recruiting sales staff.
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Guest entry from Barcelonean WhitePrince.
I’ve taken minor editorial liberties. This is risky given Eyan’s profession and my punctuatory skills. I love the way Eyan captures frustrations of his everyday work, translating, and side-benefits:
It’s easy to get distracted when researching technogyl terminolgy and follow links to something totally unrelated. Today I have read about:
- Queen Victoria and her offspring
- London City Airport
- Luxair (and edited some rather dodgy English in the Wikipedia entry)
- Tony Blair’s woes in the Scottish by-election
- A 19th century train crash in Northern Ireland
- Stairway design get the work done. It takes longer than it should. I could bspoke German until she w
Here’s my new XS poodle-knit cardigan masquerading as trendy ‘outdoor gear’. It even fits over my boob-insulatory layers. The Dollar is to give an idea of scale. Similar to a UK fiver I plan to live-up to my new classification by trying another US BEER.
A cunning design feature is the placement of the pockets directly under the booby-dudes. This means I can prop-up Bill and Ben with pocket contents. An excellent new use for my camera, wallet and phone.
Wendy In-XS
Mum taught me how to darn soon after teaching me how to knit (pre-teen) and weave. All these skills have been valuable. A knowledge of weaving and knitting is a useful pre-requisite for understanding the principles of darning.
Check out my recent handy work.
As a professionally employed person I could replace the clothes. For me, having the ability to repair is better. It gives me a preferable choice because it
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enables me to extend the life of special clothes
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side-steps unexpected obscolescence
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reduces ICKY shopping trips
Obscolescence. Love that word. Say it again with me:
Obscolescence
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