When buying clothes or shoes, one of the most important factors in choosing is the right size. Surely, everyone has heard this word more than once, but it’s not always clear what “small size” means.
Which size to choose if the thing is "small"?
Often in the store you can hear the phrase that the thing runs small. Sometimes this leads to a stupor, because it is not difficult to get confused in the meaning. What does this popular term mean, and should we be afraid of it? Small sizes - this is how it is customary to call a pair of shoes, the size of which is marked larger than it actually is.
Usually runs shoes one or 1.5 sizes too small. That is, if you have 37, then you should choose a model marked 38, if 38 - then 39, etc. This just means that they are small in size. That is why in stores it is often worth trying on several models at once, usually one size up or one size down.
Why is this happening
Often, especially when cheap or not very high qualityproduction, (as they say, Chinese) there is an error in size. Many people have a completely logical question: if the size is small, then the thing is of poor quality? Not necessarily, because the marking largely depends on the country of origin. For example, the well-known brand Zara has many items larger than the indicated size, although the clothes are of very good quality. And shoes in the Bershka fashion store, on the contrary, run small most often by 0.5-1 sizes.
If the label on a T-shirt, coat and any other thing indicates the right size, but you can’t squeeze into it or it just doesn’t fit well, the girls immediately begin to be afraid that they have gained weight, but this only means that the clothes are small.
How not to choose small sizes?
Pairs of shoes often run small. This means that there is a need to try on shoes in the store. If you choose even a slightly wrong size, you subsequently experience inconvenience when wearing. On the tags in stores, it is almost never written that the clothes are small, which means that you can find out only during the fitting. Sometimes sales assistants can tell you this or it will be visible to the naked eye, but such cases are rare.
Funny, many people have never heard of such a term, at least not in this usage. The noun “small” is more familiar to many by ear, and such a word-formation process has reached the point that it is required to clarify the meaning of a familiar word. In addition, it is quite easy to get confused in which case the clothes are oversized, andin which - less. You can memorize words by the root, when they are small, then they will be small, and vice versa.
Buying online
When ordering on the Internet, and therefore, the inability to try on, a similar error in size is also common. It is in this situation that it is easiest to make a mistake, especially since it will not always be easy to issue a refund. To avoid such problems, websites and online stores often include a table of clothing dimensions in accordance with the names of sizes accepted in different countries, measurements and data indicated in centimeters.
We figured out what "small sizes" means. When buying, you should definitely pay attention to whether it is written in the description or comments that the item did not fit at the right time due to the fact that the size was too small or too large.
