Comments on: Self-reporting one’s size

By: Fashion Incubator » Talbot’s sizing study

Fashion Incubator » Talbot’s sizing study — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:22:31 +0000

[...] post I wrote on size being a matter of opinion, a problem that is compounded when you consider that most people lie about their size. The costs of misreporting are high with the exception of people who are eating disordered; the [...]

By: Thomas Bailey

Thomas Bailey — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:29:25 +0000

My chest, waist, hip, etc. measurements go back to 1980, and from 1990 onward were quite frequent-and in metric. Measurements from 1981 and 1982 are lost. From 1974 to 1983 (age 7-16) my weight went unrecorded. From 1983 to 2003, my weight was rarely recorded. From 2003 onward my weight was more frequent.

By: Fashion-Incubator

Fashion-Incubator — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:55:38 +0000

Talbot’s sizing study

Joanna sends word of a newly released sizing study commissioned by Talbots. Somehow, 85% of women know if something fits them by looking at the size tag but 62% of them don’t know their body measurements! Moreover, only 16% of…

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:01:56 +0000

Jeff, I don’t think people get measured quite as often as they get weighed; and I’m pretty sure most of them don’t make allowance for the fact that the pads between the discs in the spine flatten out as they age, reducing their height (regardless of osteoporosis, which is another factor which can reduce height). And doctors’ offices, which is where people are most often measured, aren’t always painstaking – I remember in high school being measured at 5′7″ and 5′10″ in the same month! I was 5′7″ then; now, alack, I am 5′6″, and standing as tall as I can when I’m measured.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:20:45 +0000

My own personal weight varies by a few to several pounds, depending on the time of year and the degree of laziness (and/or warm beer and bread) that I allow to enter into my life (or mouth).

That being said, it is perfectly understandable to be unclear about ones own weight within, say, 3% or 4%. But to not have an accurate measure of ones own height is something else entirely! I thought only college basketball players fudged on their height.