Size twelve shoes?!

Aren't American sizes bigger than english ones?

Two sizes bigger I think!

After all Americans tend to be bigger than europeans due the hormones and rubbish they feed to there beef cattle to give them fat bottoms.

American sizes are smaller than *BRITISH ones. A UK8 is a US4.

I thought this thread meant in feet sizes, then I forgot girls have numbers on clothing sizes.

lol. the BRITISH ones. :laugh:

Haha I know. Just annoys me when people forget the UK includes Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales..

That is what I meant there size 12 is the the same as our 16, i.e a size 12 american is bigger than a size 12 european because they eat junk.

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What? No. It's because they start at a 0 and we start at a 6 (a 4 in some shops - the UK4 is a US0).

What? No. It's because they start at a 0 and we start at a 6 (a 4 in some shops - the UK4 is a US0). [/quote]

Yes..... so a size 12 american dress is bigger. I should have said 14 in the last post but as you can see american dresses of the same size number are bigger.

US -> UK
6 -> 8
8 -> 10
10 -> 12
12 -> 14
14 -> 16
16 - >18

source: Dress Sizes

Oh...UK4 = US0. Learnt something new today.

So is there such thing as a UK 0?

Yes there is?

It is the size of those skinny models that you see on the covers of all of those women's magazines you see in the Doctors.

:yuk:

Who would want a matchstick woman?

Yes..... so a size 12 american dress is bigger. I should have said 14 in the last post but as you can see american dresses of the same size number are bigger.

US -> UK
6 -> 8
8 -> 10
10 -> 12
12 -> 14
14 -> 16
16 - >18

source: Dress Sizes [/quote]

It doesn't neccessarily mean the sizes are bigger, they're just labelled with a different number. They're equivalents, because, like I said, they start at 0 and we start at 4/6.

And technically there isn't a UK0 - size 0 is just an accepted term nowadays for waif like, very skinny models and so on. A real size 0 is a UK4.

A size 12 American woman is bigger than a size 12 European woman. It's a know fact.

It's all the junk they eat and the rubbish they put into their meat due to their farming methods and love of big bottomed beef cattle that makes the women larger. In order for them to feel like they are normal they developed a dress size scale that makes them feel good.

We all know everything bigger in America, they tell us this all the time, and this includes people.

I don't think you understand though - what I'm saying is the numbers are different but the sizes are the same.

I know this because I'm a size 6/8UK and when I went to America I was a 2/4US. The dress sizes are equivalent with different numbers.

Red Moon and Audrey. I think your both saying the same thing..lol

There is no way Bex is a size 12, she is a 14/16.... in some shops she would be able to squeeze into a 12. Like someone else said in this thread shops vary in what they class sizes. I always by from a certain high street sore because I can get into a lower size than I would be able to fit in in other shop.

Oh and someone asked why she would lie.....errrrrrmmmm..... most women lie about their weight and dress size.

lmao who cares fact of the matter is shes blatantly not a size 12...

She's right Red :whistle:

Size wise they are the same, just a different number, uk 8, us 4

Red Moon is trying to say the sizes are different as well as the numbers.

Around her waist she probably is but she has massive boobs and a bit of extra weight so she probably isn't across her chest ...

A fat top half makes the rest of you look fatter even if you arent ...

But I do and in the context of this comment, and this where we started

If size 12 is the average size of an American woman which would be size 14/16 as you say over here then she is smaller than the average American woman if she is fact a UK size 12.

Which was where I was going in this post

before I got caught up in a discussion about American dress sizes.

All I wanted was it confirming that an American size 12 is a bigger dress than the equivalent UK size 12..... i.e it take more material to make a US size 12 than a UK size 12 because it is a big dress.

But a US12 and a UK12 are completely different. That's like saying "a UK14 and a UK10" - they're different sizes altogether, so you can't equate them? That's what I was trying to say..

I'm not I'm saying the sizes are same, they are different.

That is why it takes more material to make a US size 12 than a UK size 12.

That was my point, that is why I said at the end of the last post:

But the equivalent to a US12 is not a UK12.. so why would you compare them?

There is no such thing as size zero in the uk. We just call it size zero because americans do and the british are a group of sheep, who lick americans bums :)

A size zero over here is size 4. We dont go lower than 4. Unless you class the double size zero which is new... that would be size 2.