Why is size 9 a large at hollister co?

I just can't believe that. I am a size 11 and they carry that size but i want to be size 7, but a size nine is large???

I don't think it's too hard to understand why people get hung up on the number of their clothes. This is the same site where people freak out if their scale goes up 1lb because they ate 1lb of food!

My friend's daughter is 17 and skinny as a rail. She bought a prom dress last spring at a wedding type store and it was a 10. I had to talk her down off a ledge and tell her about wedding dress sizings. I mean the girl wears size 1 jeans for crying out loud. It's really easy to get caught up in that size thing I think.

hehe - those stores are so crazy!!  I wont even go into most of them because they get me good and annoyed with their version of large clothing.  Avoid the super trendy stores- they will make you feel like a moose everytime :)

i shop a lot at hollister and when i couldnt fit into it i didnt but i cant fit into their jeans yet =/ thats my next goal. first i couldnt fit into the size 12 a&f jeans and now i want to be able to wear their 11 (its cut a lot smaller) but seriously. would it hurt to carry an extra large...?
like even not on the sale rack you still cant always find a large. itsn ot the number that bothers me, its finding a realy cute shirt and not be able to find it in my size!

this is a really good thread

I am not sure why anyone is upset by this the store carries for smaller ppl mainly young girls and teenagers. Just like lane bryant only carries clothes for ppl size 14 and over we all had the teeniebopper stores as kids mine was deb ,if you were an overweight teenager you just shopped elsewhere no big deal tons of stores out their. every store targets a size range some stores really target for the overweight some stores really go for the skinny people. That is just a fact of life your not always going to like every store you go into and i find it a waste of time biching about it.

Reading a few of the replies makes me a bit irritated. Most of the people who shop in those stores are teens. So yeah they may have tons of jeans for skinny people, but there are bigger teens too! Hearing responses like "oh stop complaining. shop somewhere else" are great for older people. But if you're 16-17 and shopping with your friends, and they can wear all the clothes there, you're GOING to get depressed if you can't find your size. And i'm sorry but a size 11 is NOT a plus size or anything. Its pretty frikken common. So stores that target 13-18 year olds SHOULD carry it.
Then again it seems like there are a few people here who just reply in different threads to tell the people who posted it to get over whatever they mentioned. Hmm.

That said, it is a pain to find anything between a 9 and a 14ish. Half the stores around just dont carry them. And the plus size stores like Lane Bryant dont start that low(most of their sizes are 14+)..
Working in a dept store, i know... we get TONS of pants in 0-5s. Annnd then two each of 9 and 11. And one each of anything 13-17. And the bigger sizes go the fastest! The american clothing industry needs to realize not everyone is even healthy with that low of a size.

"size 9 is kinda big for the highschool college age"

you suck.

that shop is for tiny people

To hell with those stores, their clothing is made in 'sweat shops', buy fair trade items!

Well, if they made a size 9 a small or a medium then people ahem like me (00, xs) couldn't fit in their clothes at all! And when you think about it that's who they're marketing to, Hollister is considered one of the "more expensive" stores, and statistics show that people who buy Hollister tend to be thinner than people who buy say WalMart. They can market their clothes to whoever they want, Hollister happens to want to market their merchandise towards thinner people with more money, big deal. The sizes they carry aren't totally random, there actually is some reason behind what they do and why they do it.

I wear 00 or 0's and I'm not underweight even...Hollister's clothes are almost too big, lol.

Their sizes tell you something, "If you're not even reasonably able to fit the LARGEST size in the store; you need to lose some weight." Honestly, you probobly do, because what you may think of as normal or "average" is probobly actually overweight, considering 75% percent of Americans are.

I don't know about you guys, but I grew up in the late 80s, early 90s in high school and back then "most" teens were pretty tiny...size 5 or 7.  Now I'd say most teens in my high school are a bit bigger than that.  I dont' know if teens are maturing faster or what.  And they certainly don't have the body image problem like we did back then.  I see teens wearing pants that are WAY too tight, they have muffin tops hanging over their jeans and they don't care if their fat rolls show in tight fitting shirts.  I came from the era of loose sweaters and sweatshirts to cover all those things up!  Maybe kids are just more comfortable with their body?

I agree though, Hollister sizes are a bit small.  Any store is going to have a variation in how different "sizes" fit.  I was just shopping at Aeropostle, tried two different style of pants and one of those size 7/8s fit like a size 3/4!

If it is any consolation, my daughter wears the XS from Hollister.  But she's 9 years old and skinny.  She weighs 65 pounds.  So that should give you an idea of Hollister's sizing.  I want to say AE and Aeropostale are similar, too, but I'm not going to the closet to verify.  My 13-year-old wears their large, and she's 5'4" and about 122 pounds.
I'll put it this way, clothing sizes mean nothing.  It is called vanity sizing and it WORKS because people put too much value on a number or a letter written on a tag!!!  If I was the same size and body shape as my daughter, I wouldn't care if the tag in the clothes said "behemoth", I'd be SO SO SO happy. 

I refuse to go into Hollister. I feel like I'm trapped in Jumanji and that I have to wait for Robin Williams to roll the dice.

"I refuse to go into Hollister. I feel like I'm trapped in Jumanji and that I have to wait for Robin Williams to roll the dice."

You just made my day.

:D I'm glad!

Seriously how do you make up something like that? That is amazing.

i have a huge problem i am the large framed slightly over weight kid at skool i cnt wear hollister and those types of clothes a. the shoulder seams come up to my neck almost b. thier large logo tees squeeze me in (i dnt like tht) c. the clothes are way expensive and well i really wanna wear their clothes i dnt care wat the number is as long as i FIT in it w/out looking like a muffin (new word at skool= a person who wears clothes thth are way to small or look stupid on them) i wish tht they made like a misses size for broad ppl and an xl

 

gots a prob with you my bff courtney is a lot like you shes so petetie a lil u probly the same way those ppl  tllking bout broad large framed ppl WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE RETARD!

I will never understand sizing. When I'm at my heaviest I wear a size 3/4. That's when I need to lose weight. It's not in my head either. At an actual overweight BMI I wear a size 3 at hollister. It's all about build I think. My "skinny" clothes from back when I was closer to my goal weight (112 at 4'11") are size 1's from hollister and size 0's from american eagle. I wear smalls right now and I'm 125 lbs at 4'11". Someone who weighs less than me at 5'4" wearing a large sounds pretty absurd to me.

I'm not trying to brag or anything, just saying I don't really understand how clothes sizing works. It's just really really hard to generalize I think.

Original Post by mts2457:

"size 9 is kinda big for the highschool college age"

you suck.

 

Oh my gosh my thoughts exactly.  There are delicate people here and that one statement totally just brought me down.  I'm 5'7" and I would feel awesome if I fit a 9 thanks!  I'm hippy even when I'm down to 146 and I can't help that.

 

My best friend is 5'4" and WAY more overweight for her size than I am for mine, she has a real tummy and muffintop etc.  Never EVER exercises, can't BIKE a mile let alone run one.

(I'd NEVER say that to anyone who could ever know who she was or to her, but it's just apparent.  I do tell her to pull up her pants sometimes LOL!  Me and her grandma both do :/)

BUT she STILL wears one or two pants sizes below me because she's shorter and built with smaller hips / thighs and more stomach.