I was out shopping recently for some new shorts. For as long as I can remember, I can wear roughly a 32 or 33 waist pant size and feel comfortable in them.
But going through the racks, it was frustrating because all I could find were sizes 28, 30, 34, 36, etc. For the life of me, I couldn't find a 32 or a 33.
So I just decided to grab a couple of pairs of the size 30 and try them on and see what they felt like.
I Went into the changing room, tried them on and was shocked: They fit, and they were almost too loose.
For a split second, I was a bit excited, but, then I thought to myself "Wait a second, something's wrong here. There's no way I'm a 30." I checked the pants closely. There's no elastic anywhere to be found.
Just for testing purposes, I went back out and got a pair of size 34 to see how those fit. Put them on, buttoned them, and they fell right to the ground. And that's only one or two sizes larger than I normally wear.
I remember a few years ago when I was trying on some dress pants and noticed that there was this elastic pull on the sides. I thought that was pretty funny in that it allowed someone to wear a pair of pants smaller than what they could normally wear, say that they were wearing a size 32 but were actually stretching them to a size 34.
But in this most recent situation with the size 30, I think is taking it to a bit of an extreme. It also explains why there were no 32 or 33 sizes, because the guys that were actually wearing size 36 could fit in those instead.
Think about the ramifications of that though. If you're all of a sudden fitting into a size 33 or 34 where you are normally wearing a size 36 or 38, isn't that giving you the sense that you are in better shape from a waist measurement perspective?
Studies are showing that there's a strong correlation between waist size compared to your height and your risks of various health risks, rather than looking at the old standard of Body Mass Index (BMI).
If we are now making pant sizes bigger than what they actually are, just to make people feel better about their body shape, aren't we actually putting these people in the delusional mindset that they are at a healthy waist size, when in reality they may not be?
I guess looking back at my recent shopping endeavors, I've been seeing this for quite some time. I've always been a solid medium when it came to just your every day shirts, but looking through my closet now, I notice a lot more smalls sizes.
I even remember a couple of years ago not being able to find a bathing suit that fit that would actually stay on and having to go to the Juniors section to look for one (that didn't work out to well either but with the opposite problem).
I guess my point is that you need to be careful when buying clothes and to not get to excited when you're able to all of a sudden fit into a size that you normally haven't fit into and it isn't because you've been losing weight or body fat, because chances are, your pants are lying to you.
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