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European 38 = UK 10 = US 6
What is the european measurement though? 38 what? inches? around where?
I think what Lipsy meant is that you can't judge it by weight, and she's right. Bodies weigh different amounts. I'm pretty densely built, so get up to a size 10, I have to weigh in at about 9.5 stone, which BMI-wise is edging very close to being overweight for my height.
On a different note, the other day in Asda, I tried on a size 4 hoodie that was BIGGER than the size 12 (warehouse, from about 1997) hoodie I was wearing. Are people really getting smaller? :chin:
Oops, sorry, not awake today. No idea. 38 penguins.
I used to be anorexic and bulimic and at my thinnest was just over 6 stone. I am 5ft 2", so for many women my height this would not be an unnatural weight for them, though it is technically unhealthy verging on emaciated if you place any importance on BMIs as a measurement (which btw, I don't as muscle weighs more than fat and the BMI measurement could therefore judge many professional athletes as overweight when in fact they have very high muscle density. As a guide to what is healthy and what is not, it has some value I believe, but is not a true indicator of what is healthy for each individual's body as opposed to a median or averge or whatever. But anyway, small digression...) . But being that size was unhealthy for me. I could count my ribs at the front and back, my hair fell out, my skin was ashy coloured and unhealthy-looking, I was constantly tired, I has callouses on my hand from sticking it down my throat, my head looked like a lollipop head (I can now see this in pictures) and I still perceived myself as too fat. That is what is unhealthy, not a woman's weight or clothes size. A woman who wears a UK size 4 can be just as healthy as a woman who wears a UK size 10 or 12 and healthier than a woman who wears a size 20. We are who we are and obviously we are all of us different.
To add something else to the mix however... Here in Scotland I see extremes of weight all the time. I see women who are very very thin and I see women who are very overweight. I lived in Italy for a while in Tuscany and can think of only very rare incidences of seeing extremes of weight in Italian women. Most clothes shops only stock sizes 40, 42 and 44 which are British sizes 8, 10 and 12 and I hardly ever saw an Italian woman who was outside of this size-ranging. I noticed that Italian sizing was also in general smaller than British sizing. Why do you think our country is so full of extremes of weight when other European countries are not? Or do you have a different experience of this?
Mila
Sorry if I've missed a post...
But that's like saying all women like orange toned poofters in drainpipes because all the men in Cosmo are orange toned poofters in drainpipes.
I think most of the girls in lads mags are rough as sin *shrug*
Haha good point. Most of the male models in my magazines look kinda androgynous.
Well you can be curvy and have flat tummys. It depends what yo class curvy as. Curvy isn't fat. Theres a difference.
I have been slim and "fat" and i have always thought the same. Stick thin and boney really doesn't appeal to me.
i dont think the impact was as high as she is tiny anyway, i think if you`d have taken someone who is a size 12, it'd hit home more, but because she was tiny anyway, she didnt look horribly boney, just ill
Spot on there!!
I was a size 10 when i was 16. So obviously I've put a slight amount of weight on since being 16, and had a child, but yet now i'm a size 6. Possibly a 4.
Someone said something about, skinny woman with curves being ill.
Well that's not true. I'm a size 6, and i've been working-out and have put more weight on, but lost it around my waist, so therefore look curvier!
People are too quick to judge in there own mind, What looks right and what doesn't, We are all allowed opinions, of course, But, I don't like the way people make harsh statements judged on personal opinion, Rather than facts.
Anyway, Size Zero, I've not seen/tried any yet. If I fit into them great. It's something new. If i don't, then I'll go find something else new in fashion to wear.
Haha. I wanna go to America and be able to get clothes in size 8!