Z o r bl o g

Last night I tried on a dress at Le Chateau, size small, and it was so small I could not get it over my ass.

Now by ANY weight/BMI/bodyfat% chart, I AM NOT FAT. I'm probably fitter than 99% of the people I know in real life.

Here are my stats:

5'2"/113 pounds/20.7 BMI/19.3% bodyfat.

To compare, I can easily fit into a size 14 girls at Old Navy and a dress size of 0/2 at most stores.

Yet, I think I would have had to lose at least 20 more pounds to even consider fitting into that dress. There's a lot of talk of vanity sizing, but this was reverse vanity sizing at its worst - totally soul crushing in the self-esteem department. I'm very upset that there are clothes for adult women sized so small that one would have to be ridiculously, unhealthily skinny to fit into. Le Chateau needs to get their heads out of their asses and make clothes that don't require a total starvation diet to fit into. Actually, while I'm on that, they should make clothes that fit people shorter than 5'10" as well.

update: copy of this blog entry sent to Le Chateau customer service. I eagerly await a reply.