At 11:04 on Monday, 15 Mar 2004, Madhu Menon wrote: > Guys, > > I've never understood how these foreign dress sizes work. For instance, > I take it that a size 6 is thin? What exactly does it correspond to? And > is size 14 big? > > Please enlighten me. :) and this is fun: https://soho.safeordering.net/justsaywhen/Vintage-101-Sizing.htm To answer your question above - UK average women are size 12 (14, but relabelled I think!) Size 6 is skinny. This is big: http://www.ianardo.com/sizechart.html The motherlode of size charts: http://www.evalu8.org/staticpage?page=review&siteid=296