When you walk into a Department store if your a man, you go to the Men's Department...simple, easy.....sizing for men is standard by waist, chest and neck size. When you look for women's clothes there is a Juniors , Misses and Women's sections.
WHY WOMEN HAVE TO TRY ON CLOTHES
I will use Khol's as an example, there are 11 DIFFERENT DESIGNER'S in just the Misses department alone. There are no standard measurements among women's clothes designers, if Vera Wang designs a size 8 the fit will be totally different fit from Jennifer Lopez's designs size 8. This means there are 11 different versions of a misses size 8 in Khols. Talk to any woman, ask her how frustrating this is and how much of her free time she spends trying on clothes!!
SELF WORTH
Last year even though I dropped 30lbs and so many inches of body fat from crossfitting, clothes shopping was still emotionally hard. I associated what size I was with my self worth. I felt if I had to go up a size in a pair of jeans instead of the new size I had worked so hard to become this was "bad or ugly". Very often I walked out of the store without buying anything and feeling depressed. As a result I had very few clothes. This year I was taking my daughter to college orientation and I desperately needed to buy clothes to wear because I had hardly any! I tried on the first outfit it was a cute sun dress in a misses size 8, well the waist fit but I could not zip up the side zipper once it hit the beginning of my ribs...grrr!! I riped that dress off over my head, threw it on the ground, was just about to jump on it in defeat, when I stopped and gave myself a reality check! "Elisa, your body is soo different now from crossfitting for 18 months now, your back is wider from lifting heavy weights, your butt is rounder and your thighs are thicker because you squat so much, your arms are more powerful....you actually have 'guns', DO NOT EXPECT ONE SIZE to fit your new body!"
A NEW PERSPECTIVE
