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Why do sales people never listen?!
I'm sure all of us here on Bratabase have this experience with bras, but I also ALWAYS have the problem when I try to buy pants. It's lovely that they think I look smaller than I am down there (they also always think I look smaller than I am UP there), but it really isn't helpful to send me into the fitting room with a pair of pants that I KNOW will be two at least two sizes too small. Why ask me what size I usually wear (well, that's part of the problem, you see: my waist may be XS/S, but my hips and butt are closer to L/XL) when you have absolutely no intention of listening?! "No, you're not that big, you're tiny!" Nice that you seem to think that, but a pair of jeans with waist size 27" is NOT going to fit me in a million years and hasn't fit me since I was, what, 11 or so. And no, the size 28 that you eventually grudgingly handed me (I was asking for 30, 31, and 32 ... ) did NOT get past my thighs either. In fact, up to today I never realised I apparently have thick calves too, thank you very much.
And what is up with MATERNITY jeans being sized by waist measurement anyway?! *headdesk*
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Huh, i mostly shop in big stores where you just get your own clothes to try on. And i think the maternity pants are more aimed at your hips, tho it lists a waist size? I mean, the back, where there's no panel, still is sized like jeans
I just popped into this specialty maternity store today, because I happened to be passing and was almost immediately jumped upon by this sales woman. I was just puzzled by the sizing, so when she asked whether she could help me, I asked her whether these were indeed "standard" jeans sizes and how on earth I would establish my "waist" size, considering I'm over 4 months pregnant (for what it's worth, my pre-pregnancy waist measured 25-26", but that has never had any bearing on what jeans size would eventually possibly "fit" me: 29 when my hips/thighs were at their thinnest, 31 or even 32 when they weren't -- provided a curvy enough fit to not leave me with an enormous gap in the back). It simply went downhill from there -- I am shy, uncomfortable, not very assertive, and just plain clumsy in these situations, so I ended up in a fitting cubicle with two pairs size 28. I briefly thought "hey, these are maternity jeans, maybe they're magically stretchy or something", but that obviously was a very silly thing to think ...
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