boo!

[schmerica]

I now own two pairs of pajama pants from Target. These pants are the same brand, and the same exact size. One of them fits so loosely it almost falls off; the other I can barely get over my hips.

You know, I realize it's ridiculous to expect any sort of consistency in sizing from clothing makers, but is it really *that* much to ask that they're vaguely similar within the same *brand*?

*glares at today's newly bought and badly-fitting lane bryant jeans, as well*

At least the pretty new sweater from today looks fabulous. Not to mention the sparkly purse magnets and the sushi band-aids and the coconut lime body lotion. Yaaaaay, stuff.

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[estrella30.livejournal.com]

ooo! We *all* went shopping this weekend it looks like *g*

*pets pearl's pretty purchases*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*licks*

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've bought jeans of the same brand before and found the larger size to be smaller than the smaller size. So now I try every pair I'm going to buy on before buying it, 'cos clothing manufacturers are on crack.

I want sushi band-aids!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I hate trying on clothes in stores with a passion, but obviously I'm going to have to just learn to deal with it.

The sushi band-aids were found at Little Finnegans (they still have the cute wind-up sushi, too). They were actually way more expensive than I can remotely justify (something like 15 cents per band-aid, I think I figured out), but I am trying to ignore that.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I can tell you why this is happening. I used to work in the fashion biz in the '80s for a company called Colours By Alexander Julian. We would have the same sweater made in factories in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan -- 100 dozen here, 150 dozen there -- because of trade quotas. The company wasn't allowed to have more than X amount of sweaters made in any one country. Also, any one factory can only make a certain amount of sweaters in a certain amount of time, so Colours would spread the sweaters around various factories in one country. And despite the fact that each factory would get the same instructions and size requirements, you'd still get differently-sized clothing, all marked the same size. We were selling high-quality, expensive sweaters made for sale in Bloomies, Saks' Fifth Avenue, and Bergdorfs, so the size differences weren't that noticeable, mostly a slightly longer sleeve here or an inch across the chest plus or minus. Our clothes were in the $65 to $250 range. But the stuff you're buying in a store like Target is, and I don't say this to insult your new 'jammies, but they are CHEAP goods. The factories that clothing sold in stores like Target and JC Penney are being made in are cheap-ass sweat-factories with people being paid so little, they just want to squeeze out as many pieces per hour that they can in order to earn the wee pittance that they make. Not a lot of care is going into the making of these goods, the cloth flies through the sewing machines. Hence the wild size changes though they are the same pajamas marked with the same size.