I may have slightly overdone the shopping yesterday. I had to get up and take aspirin in the middle of the night because my left elbow was hurting so much, and I'm distinctly sore and stiff today. Maybe it will be better once I get moving; I hope so, because I do need to do laundry and pick up at least a few groceries, and a more general burst of domesticity wouldn't be a bad thing.
Oct. 4th, 2009
Based on Marks&Spencer (a popular UK retailer) skirts in my possession:
1982: Size 14=26 inch waist, 38 inch hip.
1994: Size 12=26 inch waist, 37 inch hip.
Based on the Marks and Spencer web site, the current size 10 is 27 inch waist, 37 inch hip. (They specify it in centimetres these days, but I can multiply by 2.54 with a little help.) This might explain why, the last time I went skirt-shopping back home, I was finding some 10s inconveniently big on me -- which I wouldn't have minded had a smaller size been available in the style I fancied. I think I did buy a size 8 in London last year, but I can't put my hand on it to check.
A US department-store size 8 has fit me fairly consistently as long as I've been here, but I bought a size 6 skirt yesterday, because it fit around my middle and the 8 didn't. Maybe it was meant to sit lower, but that just doesn't work on me these days.
1982: Size 14=26 inch waist, 38 inch hip.
1994: Size 12=26 inch waist, 37 inch hip.
Based on the Marks and Spencer web site, the current size 10 is 27 inch waist, 37 inch hip. (They specify it in centimetres these days, but I can multiply by 2.54 with a little help.) This might explain why, the last time I went skirt-shopping back home, I was finding some 10s inconveniently big on me -- which I wouldn't have minded had a smaller size been available in the style I fancied. I think I did buy a size 8 in London last year, but I can't put my hand on it to check.
A US department-store size 8 has fit me fairly consistently as long as I've been here, but I bought a size 6 skirt yesterday, because it fit around my middle and the 8 didn't. Maybe it was meant to sit lower, but that just doesn't work on me these days.
