del.icio.us fashion links for October 17, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008 16:00Posted in category del.icio.us
del.icio.us fashion links for October 17, 2008:
- Rightsize Me - The Atlantic (December 2007)
As a teenager, I squeezed into size-12 jeans. Over the past three decades, I’ve put on about 20 pounds, mostly below the waist. I now wear a size 6. People in the garment business call that bit of flattery “vanity sizing.” Sizes aren’t what they used to be. - Tags: none
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Kathleen says:
October 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Maybe you could also consider the 12 part industry response to “vanity sizing”? Start with _The Myth of Vanity Sizing_. http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/the_myth_of_vanity_sizing/ . Funny how reporters and consumers wax eloquent about vanity sizing but nobody bothers to read what industry has to say about it. Doesn’t seem entirely fair or balanced.
This is not to say sizing is not problematic and confusing but were industry to be as blame centered as consumers have been, we could say that “vanity sizing” could be interpreted as a simplistic get-out-of-jail-free card for consumers (”vanity sizing” did not become a problem until consumers started becoming obese in record numbers) -but that wouldn’t be fair would it? I suggest it is no more fair to blame manufacturers to the exclusion of everyone else either.
A better term to describe this phenomenon is “sizing inflation” or “sizing evolution”. There is a direct relationship between “vanity sizing” and rampant consumer obesity.
geekigirl says:
October 20th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Hi Kathleen,
Thanks for the link, it will be included the next del.icio.us fashion links posting. I really could link articles on your whole site, I’ll have to space it out a bit