Acquiring beautiful, fashionable clothes is not only a necessity, but a kind of hobby for many women. How much fun it takes to go shopping on a cool day, wander through shopping centers, slowly choosing dresses, skirts, accessories ... Unfortunately, the fast pace of life, which many townspeople live, does not allow you to freely dispose of free time, because career and family affairs take away its lion's share. But to be beautiful and pay attention to yourself so want to! If you do not have free time to make purchases, you can use online stores or special catalogs.
Many do not use this kind of services, and in vain - because often there it is possible to find exclusive models of clothes and shoes. The fact is that few women know how to determine the size of clothes, and in this regard, they do not risk buying things without fitting. From this article you will get useful information that will help you make purchases with pleasure and confidence that the ordered thing will have to fit.
European and Russian clothing sizes
Before you give data on the correspondence of European sizes to Russian, and also give information on how to determine the American size of clothes, let's talk about the basic rules that need to be taken into account by measuring:
- Be sure to make measurements tightly on the body. In case your size is somewhere in between others, clothing manufacturers advise choosing a larger one. However, as practice shows, many are well suited to a smaller one.
- Pay attention to your growth. Sometimes for very tall or too short, you have to choose a thing larger or smaller.
- Coats or jackets need to choose the size in size, do not buy outerwear that will sit on you too tightly or freely.
You can determine the size of outer clothing using the table of correspondence of sizes:
| Russia | 40 | 42 | 44 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 52-54 |
| International | XS | XS | S | M | L | L | XL |
European and Russian clothing sizes are easy to calculate. In the CIS, the most popular, of course, the Russian clothing size, and in order to determine it, you need to measure the volume of the chest, waist and hips. The chest circumference is measured clearly horizontally, at the level of the nipples. The waist circumference is measured along its line, not trying to involve the stomach or to tighten the centimeter. Hips are measured in the most voluminous place on the buttocks.
After taking measurements, you can use the following table of clothing sizes.
| Russian dimensions | Chest circumference | Waist circumference | Hip girth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 78-81 | 63-65 | 88-91 |
| 42 | 82-85 | 66-69 | 92-95 |
| 44 | 86-89 | 70-73 | 96-98 |
| 46 | 90-93 | 74-77 | 99-101 |
| 48 | 94-97 | 78-81 | 102-104 |
| 50 | 98-102 | 82-85 | 105-108 |
| 52 | 103-107 | 86-90 | 109-112 |
| 54/56 | 108-113 | 91-95 | 113-116 |
| 58 | 114-119 | 96-102 | 117-121 |
| 60/62 | 120-125 | 103-108 | 122-126 |
| 64 | 126-131 | 109-114 | 127-132 |
| 66/68 | 132-137 | 115-121 | 133-138 |
| 70 | 138-143 | 122-128 | 139-144 |
| 72/74 | 144-149 | 129-134 | 145-150 |
| 76 | 150-155 | 135-142 | 151-156 |
Now you know how to determine the size of clothes, but we will give you some more tips so that you can choose the right things in catalogs and online stores.
- look at the thing in reality. Clever women of fashion do so - first they go to the store brand clothes, choose the liked thing, review it, try on and order the same on the Internet, because often it is on the network you can buy a quality fashionable thing at a discount;
- if you do not have enough time and you can not afford to look at clothes in advance, carefully read the information given by the seller - the color, quality, material from which the chosen item is made, must be 100% as stated on the seller's website;
- according to the law on consumer protection, you can return this or that piece of clothing if it does not suit you, or does not comply with the declared characteristics.