Do Fashion Designers Make Their Garments Deliberately Small?

Not all women find buying ladies designer clothes simple. It’s a good thing if you have curves, but fashion designers don’t seem to think like that and that’s why their clothes always run much smaller than high street labels. In all the years that designer fashion has been available, there seems to have been one common theme, and that’s that the clothes are small sized.

Of course, all women want to look their best and ladies designer clothes have a great impact on our self-confidence. The truth is though, many women that have curves genuinely struggle to get into designer clothes because of the small sizing and it makes them feel despondent. For a start, you have to find a designer piece in your size, and as everything seems to be getting smaller these days, it can feel like a nightmare task trying to find the right ladies designer clothes to wear. It is interesting to note how designer clothes are always on the small side, so whereas you might be a size UK 8 in normal clothes, you would probably have to buy a size 10 to be able to fit into it. There are even many genuinely slim women who get frustrated with designer clothes and the small sizing.

It is clear that fashion designers make their clothes slightly smaller so that they look their very best when on the catwalk and being worn by the very thin models. However, the reality is that there are many women of different shapes and sizes that still want to be able to wear the latest ladies designer clothes. Designers often only concentrate on how the garment looks down the catwalk, not realising that real women wear the pieces too.

Luckily, this is not the end, and there are some fashion designers that are making their clothes a ‘true’ size UK 12 for example, meaning real women can fit into their pieces finally. Juicy Couture, for example, used to run particularly on the small side, but now a Juicy size Large will comfortably fit a UK 12 or 14, so maybe other designers will start following suit too.

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