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Hugo85
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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Deodorant and toothpaste = foreign food market.
Size 12 women clothes... I would say if it's not in Itaewon then I would go to Myeongdeong as there are more international brands. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Size 12 isn't a plus size in America, but I believe it's the largest regular size before plus size starts (14 is the smallest size at stores for larger women.) You may be able to find stuff at Gap, Zara, and H&M.
Size 12 is considered plus size here. I'm not saying that you're fat. You could be an Amazonian knockout. Still, you'd have better luck at the stores catering to larger women in Itaewon.
If you know the exact size and cut from particular brands, you could possibly order clothing to a friend or family member back home to have them ship to you. |
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mnjetter
Joined: 21 Feb 2012
Location: Seoul, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Most of the plus-size outlets in Itaewon will sell size 10 and 12 to, because they are both considered to be big sizes here in Korea. I heard that at the big western chains (Zara, H&M, etc.), you can only find up to a size 10. I haven't checked it out personally, but it was certainly that way in Japan (I was a size 12 when I was there), so I would believe it. Though I was able to find some larger shoe sizes at Zara in Tokyo. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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A tad OT
Wookin Pa Nub |
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eventually
Joined: 30 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
Size 12 isn't a plus size in America, but I believe it's the largest regular size before plus size starts (14 is the smallest size at stores for larger women.) You may be able to find stuff at Gap, Zara, and H&M.
Size 12 is considered plus size here. I'm not saying that you're fat. You could be an Amazonian knockout. Still, you'd have better luck at the stores catering to larger women in Itaewon.
If you know the exact size and cut from particular brands, you could possibly order clothing to a friend or family member back home to have them ship to you. |
just noting i remember a time when 12 was not considered a plus size and shopping for jeans wasn't so difficult. [and no, 12 is not the last size before plus sizes hit - in the u.s. 13/14 is in the regular sizes.]
i was not offended by the suggestion. but thanks for not saying i'm fat. dodged a bullet there, i did. wheeew. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:44 am Post subject: |
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Yes, 13/14 is in the regular sizes, but 14 is also the smallest size at plus-sized stores. There's a bit of overlap.
There's no need to be snarky. I gave you a couple of helpful suggestions, and didn't say that you were heavy. For all I know you're 6' tall and gorgeous. I'm just saying that you're on the borderline for plus size, which again doesn't necessarily mean that you're fat.
Also, a size 12 today is likely much larger than a size 12 a few decades ago.
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Individual manufacturers have also become more generous with sizes over the years, according to some research and a lot of anecdotal evidence. Studies by Jane Workman at Southern Illinois University, for example, have found gradual and significant growth in the dimensions used for size 8 and 10 fit models over the decades. By 1997, a size 8 was essentially equivalent to a size 10 in 1986, Workman reported a 2000 study in the journal Clothing & Textiles.
Since then, that trend has continued on the same trajectory, experts say. In the late-90s, according to proprietary information, some manufacturers simply pushed all of their clothes down a size, so that 10's became 8's, 8's became 6's, and so on. That led some stores to add 0's and even 00's for small women. |
http://news.discovery.com/human/alley-gunn-sizing-110928.html |
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