starlett2010
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Post by starlett2010 on May 7, 2008 22:25:55 GMT -5
^Yeah, sucks to not be a freakin sizes four, especially for those of us in the double digits!
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
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Post by Penny Lane on May 8, 2008 1:13:19 GMT -5
I always thought that meant that they fit a size 4 perfectly, not that four was perfection. Mostly because I subscribe to 2 being closer to the "right" size, however that does change with the label.
I mean, how many people are the exact size, off the rack? Not many. So being a perfect size 2,4, 6, 0, whatever might be something to mention.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 12, 2008 17:14:13 GMT -5
I currently own jeans in sizes 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. Stupid women's sizes. How can someone be a perfect anything when sizes are so different from label to label?
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Post by greer on May 13, 2008 13:53:18 GMT -5
yeah, i don't understand why women's sizes aren't numerical like men's.
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lyricalangel
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Post by lyricalangel on May 13, 2008 14:46:25 GMT -5
It would be a whole lot easier if they were.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on May 13, 2008 15:03:59 GMT -5
I think it has something to do with several things:
1.) Vanity Sizing. I guess some companies got together and came up with a system that kind of worked. But the people (In the U.S.) started to get heavier and wider, and the industry adjusted the sizes. I guess when it comes down to getting a size 2 of one brand or buying a size 6 of a different most women would pick the size two. (I'm simplifying and not adding in other factors like label or style) 2.) Women's ready to wear clothing was never really regulated like men's was. Men's clothing started to appear during wars (Civil?) and Women didn't have a ready to wear off the rack clothing line until the 1920s, I believe. 3.) Women are all different shapes and sizes (so are men), so it's more difficult to come up with an affordable way to mass produce clothing in various sizes. Example: If you are looking for a men's dress shirt you look at collar size, and sleeve length. to do that for women, you would have to look at sleeve length, bust size, torso length, and fitted or not. Add in all the different styles and such, and -- I don't know where I was going with this.
I agree with you guys. It's stupid that we are forced to try on a hundred different things to find one pair of pants.
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Post by greer on May 16, 2008 2:31:45 GMT -5
What annoys me is that not even shoe sizes are very standard. Another thing that annoys me is that so many charts I see says that if you're a size 6 US, you wear a size 37 European... and I have never found a size 37 that was not too big for me. I always wear a 35 or 36 in European shoes.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 18, 2008 0:05:57 GMT -5
Did anyone ever notice in in the written jounal entries in ALL books that Claudia makes at least one mistake every time, yet none of the other BSC members EVER make a mistake? Weird. No one is that good a speller, and the odds that no BSC member would make a mistake except for Claudia is astronomical. Even on these forums I've noticed each person has made at least one spelling mistake.
If Mary Anne was a computer, her default setting would be crying, and her safe mode would be passive aggression.
The interior picture as Jessi as Santa Claus was her most manish yet. And it wasn't even one of Hodges pictures...Kristy on the cover was wearing a sack as a dress. Some here say Jessi as Santa was a stretch, but she had the personality to do it and the ability to get along with the kids, which is the most important thing. Some of the Santas in department stores when I was a kid scared me senseless.
What was with that random usher at the Barrett wedding? who did magic tricks for the kids. I though he might become Shannon or Mallory's love interest but then he just disappeared.
Jeff was really grumpy in his entries but I liked it. It was a change from the stepford BSC characters.
Also, with Stacey and her insulin in the first Stacey chapter: does anyone who has diabetes call their insulin 'my medicine'? My dad (who was diabetic) always called it insulin. When Stacey's mother asked about her medicine, I though Stacey had been diagnosed with another disease/syndrome like asthma.
Did Dawn not bother to invite Stacey to California ('cause Dawn did all her invites BEFORE Stacey was asked to be the Barrett's bride's maid)? Burn! I get not asking Mal or Jessi, but Stacey was part of the original five.
As mentioned in posts above, this book wrecked Santa for all those kids who believed in him when they read the book. When I found out the easter bunny wasn't real, I figured Santa and the tooth fairy weren't real. However, when my brother was told Santa wasn't real, he persisted in believing in Santa for another two years! So we kept getting presents from 'Santa.' Classic. Also, we only ever got small presents from Santa 'cause my mum hated for Santa to get credit for the presents she handmade (i.e. she spent three weeks knitting clothes for my Cabbage Patch Kids) or presents she paid a lot for.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 18, 2008 18:14:52 GMT -5
I don't even remember what happened with me and the Santa realization. I knew he wasn't real. I still got presents from him. He had the same handwriting as my mom. ;D I also get presents from the pets and I doubt they're out shopping.
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Post by lionessblack on May 18, 2008 21:29:16 GMT -5
My mom was really good at disguising her handwriting. I don't know how I justified the Santa thing when I read about it in BSC books, because when I found out about Santa not being real, I was devastated. Maybe I just had an overactive imagination or something, but I really, truly believed. It still kind of bothers me that he's not real.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 18, 2008 22:07:36 GMT -5
I wasn't too bothered when I found out there was no Santa. However, I was worried about not getting so many presents now that I knew he wouldn't be 'visiting' once a year. I was a greedy, greedy child.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on May 19, 2008 10:21:39 GMT -5
What was with that random usher at the Barrett wedding? who did magic tricks for the kids. I though he might become Shannon or Mallory's love interest but then he just disappeared. I always thought he was way older than them, which would make him a creepy love interest.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on May 19, 2008 11:20:41 GMT -5
D: D: D: WHERE IS MY SPELLING MISTAKE I am such a Karen Brewer about these things
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Post by greer on May 19, 2008 11:22:51 GMT -5
^yeah I don't recall making a spelling mistake either.
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Post by murderedmymuse on May 19, 2008 18:44:40 GMT -5
re: people's spelling mistakes on this forum. Didn't mean to start an incident I'm not going to comb through the whole forum to find these spelling mistakes 'cause I really don't care that much. And is it such a bad thing to make the occasion spelling mistake? It's only human. I'm just pointing out in the real world people make the occasional spelling mistake (using this forum as a point of reference) and that the non-Claudia BSC members NEVER EVER making a spelling mistake was kinda weird. In books like the 'Dear Diary' series and the SVH 'diary' books, they were written with the concept that this is a girl writing in her diary, yet there were no spelling or grammar mistakes (not realistic for a teenage girl) but I could handle that as mistakes in the text would have taken away from the reading experience. But considering they include spelling mistakes in Claudia's handwriting (if only to make the point Claudia is a bad student), they may as well include the occasional spelling mistake in the other girls' handwriting.
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