Skirt shoping questions

[mushroom]

Best advice.... Try it on... what can it hurt!!

[Aloofguru]

Rather than putting in another reply, I think AloofGuru is using the term "aloof" as defined as standing off or away from others, aloof can also mean thinking ones self as being "better" than anyone else. Calling oneself a "guru" is perpetuating the idea that in some field or another you are better than anyone else also. I'm not assuming that AloofGuru meant it in this way, perhaps he didn't know the actual meanings of the words.

It is kind of a play on words. its the name ive had on delphi for years now. Guru is master over one's self. Yes i do tend to stand away form others and gather my thoughs. form my own myown ideas. but by no means do I feel that better than anyone else. I see everyone on the same level as myself.

[SkirtDude]

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[Sarongman]

I think Aloofguru is another 5 in that enneagram that I wrote about in another thread. Okay already! I know that thread died in it's infancy.

[sapphire]

You guys are having way too much fun in this thread! May I join in?

When referring to women's clothing the term "petite" means that the proportions of the garment are scaled for a woman wwho is shorter than 5 feet 5 inches.

Not all manufacturers use the same standard for sizing their garments. What might be a size 10 today was probably a size 14 in 1950.

Basically you need to try on the garments. Usually a manufacturer will be consistent in sizing for what that manufacturer produces, but feels no obligation to be cosistent with other manufacturers.

As I said in another post on another thread, quoting Cole Porter: "Experiment"

Research it. In the words of Dr. Werner Van Braun: "Research is what I am doing when I do not know what I am doing"

[JeffB1959]

To add my two cents, I already know my size (currently Misses size 12) before I go to the stores, so I know going in what will fit, all I have to do is pick out something I like then buy it and try it on when I get home. Now, because I'm tall (6-2), skirts that fall to the knee on women fall two to three inches above same on me due to my height, but I don't mind as the shorter look appeals to me. For whatever it's worth, I don't like low rise anything, I prefer eevrything sitting at my natural waist, that's what I like and what looks best on me.

[Peter v]

Re women's sizing I tend to go shopping with a tape measure in hand. I really wish the manufacturers would stick to well known physical quantities like cm or in. (I get the impression that most women share my feelings in that reguard)

Hallo there, I agree completely. Although I have lost a little weight recently, meaning I can wear one or two sizes smaller, ( and some of the skirts i have are too large ) I go looking for a specifik size, and the measure the width once. or half the total circumference. Then when the skirt is the right cm's I go and fit them on. There is no problem with doing that here, in the Netherlands.

I get really fed up about the sizing. We have sizes 38, 40, 42, 44, etc. and that should in my book be equivalent to half the cm's of the skirt at the waist line. But that differs very much. And then you also have french sizing etc. which differs again.

Measuring is the only sure way to go.
I always have a measuring tape about 75 cm's long in my bag with me.
(wearing some skirts without pockets means that a bag ( hand bag) is neccessary.)

Peter v.

[Bryan]

In recent months both myself and my wife have both had clothing from Marks & Spencer, which should have been identical garments, apart from colour. On both occasions the sizing was different, one fitting me perfectly and the other being far too loose. My wife had the opposite, one item fitted her perfectly and the other was far too tight.


Bryan

[Peter v]

quick question. You were talking about low rise and junors. any I confused. what ive saw is misses being labled low rise and juniors lables ultra low rise. only differnce i could see is the zipper is a inch shorter.

Ive heard some one here mention they had a string with 2 washers on it to check waist size like you do with your arm

do we have alot of florida members here? Im in jacksonville.

I've used a piece of string, knotted in a loop, to my waist size, as a comparison to the skirt size, but it got twisted every time. I now have a length of sewer's measuring tape with me at all times. And you could ask, at the counter, possibly they have aone there to lend.

I find measuring, then the all important fitting the only way to go. Every skirt fits differently.

Peter v

[DavidsSkirts]

also, how does one become a guru about loofs? i'm bored today and the sun never turned up, leaving me dressed for the beach on a freezing day

iain,

i think there might be a trans-literation involved here. i believe he might be a guru about LOOFA! it's very easy for this type of mis-understanding to occur, especially on an international message board.

i, for one, could use a little enlightenment in regards to loofa!

" loofa for you, loofa for me ...
loofa for breakfast ..
loofa for tea . "

[SkirtDude]

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[Peter v]

To add my two cents, I already know my size (currently Misses size 12) before I go to the stores, so I know going in what will fit, all I have to do is pick out something I like then buy it and try it on when I get home. Now, because I'm tall (6-2), skirts that fall to the knee on women fall two to three inches above same on me due to my height, but I don't mind as the shorter look appeals to me. For whatever it's worth, I don't like low rise anything, I prefer eevrything sitting at my natural waist, that's what I like and what looks best on me.

Low rise, or ? on the hips, doesn't work well on men, they have virtually no hips. Fat bulges more likely.

Otherwise you must have perfectly fitting skirts (or pants)
I have been fitting several skirts the past days and seem to be in between at the moment, size 40 ( Here in the Netherlands ) is mostly depending on the maker, quite tight, and size 42 feels a little roomy. When you buy skirts that don't have belt loops, or are not made for belt use, the fitting has to be spot on. Nobody said it would be easy. Women have it a little easier, as they have more hip to fit the skirt on. Whenever there is a fiting room, I ALWAYS fit the skirt there. It saves a lot of time and unnessesary exchanging, also buying reduced price skirts has to be right the first time, as reduced articles cannot be exchanged or returned.

Peter v

[JeffB1959]

To add my two cents, I already know my size (currently Misses size 12) before I go to the stores, so I know going in what will fit, all I have to do is pick out something I like then buy it and try it on when I get home. Now, because I'm tall (6-2), skirts that fall to the knee on women fall two to three inches above same on me due to my height, but I don't mind as the shorter look appeals to me. For whatever it's worth, I don't like low rise anything, I prefer eevrything sitting at my natural waist, that's what I like and what looks best on me.

Low rise, or ? on the hips, doesn't work well on men, they have virtually no hips. Fat bulges more likely.

Otherwise you must have perfectly fitting skirts (or pants)

At the risk of sounding like a braggart, but, yeah, I do. I guess I'm fortunate in that regard. Now, all the denim skirts I own at present have belt loops, but I never need to wear a belt with them as they already fit well, so a belt would, for me, be nothing more than decorative, and depending on what sort of top I wear, I can go with a belt or not.