Thursday 7 March 2013

Is size 8 really aspirational?

I went on a little shopping spree last weekend and was a little surprised with what i found out.

 I am quite skinny, I am lucky that i never really have to worry about my weight. I am a UK 6 top and a UK 8 bottom.

 While out I found this top I liked, a plain blue t-shirt but I just loved the colour and feel. However i was not willing to pay £16 for one plain t-shirt! Replacing the Topshop T-shirt, I decided to look in New Look for a cheaper option!
Looking around I could not find my blue top, but I picked up a few other things instead. Venturing downstairs in the Basingstoke store, I found myself in the children's range after spotting a top i liked, and not realising! I have to say New Look kids clothing, is basically just smaller adults clothing, or so I thought.

 I found this blue top- so similar to the Topshop one, but considerably cheaper! I was so annoyed that the children's range had a cheaper version but not the adults.


That was until i compared the sizes of the children's top and my adult size 8 t-shirt i had picked up, form upstairs.

 The blue top, in size age 12, was actually larger than the size 8 top from the adult range. At first i thought "GREAT" as the top was half the price of the other new look top, and £11 cheaper than the similar Topshop one.

 But having got home i started thinking. Generally most girls my age aspire to be a size 8- so if a size 8 top is SMALLER than an age 12 top, are we aspiring to be thinner than children. Surely there is nothing sexy about looking like a child? Is it healthy to want to be the size of a child?

 It is definitely something i am going to think about, it made me think of the idea of waxing and body hair removal as well. I personally like to wax and be hair free- but is that also reverting my adult body to being more like a child?

 What do you think?

 Kayla xxx
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  1. Okay7 March 2013 at 15:10

    Maybe it's the figure-hugging-ness of it all? I'm similar to you, never had an issue with keeping skinny; I've only just hit a healthy BMI (twenty years in the making and the doctor didn't even as much as give me a sticker! :P)

    But yeah, I shop in both kids and adults, but I fit they are in different proportions, for instance, whereas I can get my boobs in a size eight and sits on my waist nicely, the age 11-12 will be baggy on the waist, a little too short and not room-y at the top. It makes me a little proud that the New Look teens clothes aren't clingy, as people always say that kids dress too old, so that seems like a nice control.

    Either way, I don't think it's size that counts, but fitness and health. (:

    Come visit me! :D http://www.prettypug.blogspot.com

    -Nin xx

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  2. Unknown8 March 2013 at 02:03

    I am with you on this

    As a younger adult I too used to find Childrens wear more accessible, better fitting and great price - God I miss ladybird at Woolworths - ecxpecially for their footwear!!

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  3. Unknown8 March 2013 at 02:36

    Sorry my reply button has not been working so i believe i have sent you replied individually now! Thank you for commenting!

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  4. Granny Gee8 March 2013 at 09:17

    I'm a size 10 and I was shocked to find that I fit into New Look's children's aged 13-14!

    As much as I do like buying clothes a bit cheaper, it does worry me that the size of children these days seems to be getting so much larger and the catwalk models so much skinner!

    grannygee.blogspot.com

    xx

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    1. Unknown8 March 2013 at 10:26

      Thank you, i agree completely! Its nice to get such a bargain but i feel a little uncomfortable aiming to be the size of a child!

      Are we trying to be too thin? Or are children getting fatter and the shops are having to accommodate that?

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