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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 339569" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Okay ------some help with this.....</p><p></p><p>Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. </p><p></p><p>However if you thrift store shop and find a size 9/10 from the 1980's and compare it to a size 9/10 from the 2000s....it would floor you. They industry must have met and said "If we don't increase the size we're never going to make women feel good enough about themselves to buy clothes." </p><p></p><p>A size 9/10 from the 80's is about a size 5/6 now. I know this because I was a size 9/10 then and had some of my stuff and my niece was digging around in the attic and put it on....she was a 5/6 by todays standards. </p><p></p><p>So when I see Abercrombie size 3/4......I'm thinking it would have been about what a 4th grader in our era would have worn. I'm not intimidated it's just times change, fashions change and I figured out about 10 years ago (thanks to thrift store shopping and Kmart tags that were from the 80's left on donated clothes) that I must have been ONE SLAMMIN SEXY BEAST in my misspent youth. </p><p></p><p>Then the other thing that hit me was.....how often did you see clothes then that were size 5X? Not too often. So tell me again that the govt didn't sell us down the river with growth hormones in our food. </p><p></p><p>Yeah ------right. Look around you the next time you're out and count how many people you see that you would NOT consider overweight at all. I'm 5'9" and 190 and STILL considered morbidly obese and I LOST 100 lbs. and now in size 10 clothes....go figure. But I know I can't get into the size 9/10 pants I wore in HS. NO WAY......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 339569, member: 4964"] Okay ------some help with this..... Marilyn Monroe was a size 14. However if you thrift store shop and find a size 9/10 from the 1980's and compare it to a size 9/10 from the 2000s....it would floor you. They industry must have met and said "If we don't increase the size we're never going to make women feel good enough about themselves to buy clothes." A size 9/10 from the 80's is about a size 5/6 now. I know this because I was a size 9/10 then and had some of my stuff and my niece was digging around in the attic and put it on....she was a 5/6 by todays standards. So when I see Abercrombie size 3/4......I'm thinking it would have been about what a 4th grader in our era would have worn. I'm not intimidated it's just times change, fashions change and I figured out about 10 years ago (thanks to thrift store shopping and Kmart tags that were from the 80's left on donated clothes) that I must have been ONE SLAMMIN SEXY BEAST in my misspent youth. Then the other thing that hit me was.....how often did you see clothes then that were size 5X? Not too often. So tell me again that the govt didn't sell us down the river with growth hormones in our food. Yeah ------right. Look around you the next time you're out and count how many people you see that you would NOT consider overweight at all. I'm 5'9" and 190 and STILL considered morbidly obese and I LOST 100 lbs. and now in size 10 clothes....go figure. But I know I can't get into the size 9/10 pants I wore in HS. NO WAY...... [/QUOTE]
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