These days, shopping for something in your size isn’t as easy as knowing if you’re more of a small, medium or large.
Shopping for new clothes can often be a pretty disheartening experience, when “your size” in a certain brand can make you feel completely overweight… or lie to you about your actual size.
Yet, when you’re buying an extra-small in some brands and size large in others, you know something is very wrong about the fashion industry’s unregulated standards.
Thankfully, one angry shopper finally had enough and called out H&M, a retailer popular worldwide for their “fast fashion” cheap and trendy clothing, after an experience in a U.K. store.
“I was browsing your sale items in your Leeds store and spotted this pair of kick flare jeans. They were only a tenner – bargain! – and a size 16,” 25-year-old shopper Ruth Clemens wrote on H&M’s Facebook page. “I’m normally a size 14 on my hips (occasionally 16 if buying trousers) so I thought I’d try them on. It did not go well.”
“As I’m sure you’re aware, size 16 is the largest size you stock (apart from in your plus size range, which is very limited in store and does not offer the range of styles for the fashion-conscious that are available in smaller sizes).
“I am not overweight (not that that should matter) and although I’m 5 foot 11 my body is pretty average shape-wise,” she wrote in the Facebook rant.
“It’s already difficult enough for me to find clothes that fit well because of my height, why are you making jeans that are unrealistically small? Am I too fat for your everyday range? Should I just accept that accessible and affordable high street and on-trend fashion isn’t for people like me?,” Clemens explained in the post which has since been shared nearly 13,000 times on Facebook.
“You might recognise the top I’m wearing – it’s one of yours and it’s a size Medium. Sort it out would you,” she added.
H&M’s response? They explained that sizes vary at different chains around the world.
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[Featured Image: Facebook / Ruth Clemens]
Woman Calls Out H&M For ‘Unrealistically Small’ Jean Sizes is an article from: LifeDaily