Mini Rant: Vanity Clothing Sizing - Where Does It End? First time posting something here (and still learning the formatting here) but I figured if anyone would understand this, y'all would. For those of you who don't know what vanity sizing is: it's a practice by clothing companies where they will make clothes a little bit (or in some cases) bigger, but keep the same sizing tag in order to make people feel good about themselves. Example is when a clothing company does this and what used to be their templates for their "medium" is now being used for their "small" but they are still tagging it as a small despite using a larger template. I started noticing this about 8 years ago. I like to think that I'm a pretty fashion obsessed person (I originally wanted to go to school for fashion design) and my closet agrees. Now, I'm not an extremely small girl, and I could lose a little more weight which I'm working on, but I am in NO WAY huge.  My first experience with vanity sizing happened when I was shopping at a now extinct teen clothing store. I am a semi-average chested girl (34C for those who want a visual), but was very developed when I was very young (I have some bras from when I was 13 that still fit). I was also my permanent height by this time in time too (5'5). This was before I had the ability to look at an item of clothing and know how it would fit or not, so when I shopped, it took HOURS to try things on. I found shirts that I liked, that were nice for date nights with my boyfriend at the time, everything was great. They were mediums. This was before I started losing weight and actually caring about fitness, ect. Next time I went back to that store, I found more shirts, just like I'd gotten previously, in new colors. They had fit my body well so I picked up a few more, in the same size, because it should be the same right? Wrong. I went to put one one the next night and it was a lot baggier on me (I fixed it with a belt at the time because I had to be out the door to go somewhere). I put them up next to each other and discovered the second set I'd bought was A LOT bigger than the first. This was when I discovered vanity sizing. As the years progressed, clothes shopping became a pain in my booty. Yes, I was losing weight, but I shouldn't have to re-try things on every season from the same brand / style just because they changed the templates AGAIN for vanity sizing.  Size x-small & small skirts (the kind with the elastic waist band) were nearly too big on me. Maxi dresses had to be bought in smalls. You get my point.  Panties became my ENEMY recently. As I said, I'm still losing weight and I never had the smallest butt or thighs on earth, I admit that. but when size small panties (which in this particular brand is the smallest they go)  ARE NEARLY TOO BIG ON ME THERE IS AN ISSUE!!!  I, as a 20 year old adult woman, should not be able to go to the children's section of a store, pick out a size medium hoodie, and have it fit!  Size small tshirts should not be slightly baggy on me (and no matter how much weight I lose, should NEVER fit my boobs, which they do now!) Don't get me wrong,  I LOVE that I wear this stuff (as I said most people are FATTER than me, so they would need mediums or larges so usually sale stuff is small or XL and the small I can wear) but I've been getting into more of a routine lately with my workouts and am losing weight / toning my body at an all time high.  What is going to happen when the XS stuff is still too baggy on me because of this damn vanity sizing?! I swear some companies are now using XL templates for their Small sized items. When does it stop?!?! Why do we need plus sized clothing if they're just going to keep enlarging normal sizes?! As much as I love a good glitter shirt, I don't want to be forced to shop in the (vanity sized) children's department for my next date night dress.  Anyone have any unfortunate run ins with vanity sizing?