5th Element tops
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2.5cm = 1 inch
I noticed on their website they give bust/waist size equivalents in cm. If you take that number and divide by 2.5, that will give you the size in inches.
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I noticed on their website they give bust/waist size equivalents in cm. If you take that number and divide by 2.5, that will give you the size in inches.
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A UK size small 8/10 would approximate to a US size 4/6, that much I know.
A UK medium (12-14), is like a medium here, an 8/10/12.
Problem is, it may not be so much bust size as back width. Example, I take a US size 6 on top (UK size 10), but would go for a medium for lower half, size 8 here (UK 12).
Does this help? Does the 5th element site have a sizes chart anywhere?
Clare
A UK medium (12-14), is like a medium here, an 8/10/12.
Problem is, it may not be so much bust size as back width. Example, I take a US size 6 on top (UK size 10), but would go for a medium for lower half, size 8 here (UK 12).
Does this help? Does the 5th element site have a sizes chart anywhere?
Clare
Hi Clare,
I am not so sure about that, I am pretty certain that if you are a size 10 in the UK, you are a size 8 in the US. Hang on, let me check out my New York travel guide.....yes, this is true for women's dresses, coats and skirts. I am a UK size 18, so in the US I would be a size 16 (I wish !). As far as chest sizes go, I have no idea ?
I got confused with shoe sizes in the US. I realised when in New York, I had forgotten to pack a smart pair for the theatre, so I had to buy some and I got so confused !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though it doesn't take much to get me confused ! LOL
Anna
I am not so sure about that, I am pretty certain that if you are a size 10 in the UK, you are a size 8 in the US. Hang on, let me check out my New York travel guide.....yes, this is true for women's dresses, coats and skirts. I am a UK size 18, so in the US I would be a size 16 (I wish !). As far as chest sizes go, I have no idea ?
I got confused with shoe sizes in the US. I realised when in New York, I had forgotten to pack a smart pair for the theatre, so I had to buy some and I got so confused !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though it doesn't take much to get me confused ! LOL
Anna
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Hey Anna, another question
Thanks for helping us Yanks with Fifth Element sizing. I can just picture the poor Fifth Element people having this flood of bizarre returns from Americans all of a sudden.
Question for ya -- I've always been curious about the weight measurement "stone." How does that translate into pounds? Years ago when I was working full time my sons had a lovely British nanny for about a year, and I remember that she would fret about gaining weight and weighing "almost 11 stone." (Don't know how I recall that number, but 11 was her perpetual complaint. And to me she looked tall and slim.) I remember asking her about how to translate "stone" into pounds and she really wasn't sure.
Funny story: Kids are total sponges. While Janet was nannying for us, my then 4-year-old older son began to call Scotch tape (our name) "cello tape", and he would come downstairs on Saturday morning and ask me for "a spot of breakfast." He also began to call everything that was wonderful in his life "brilliant."
http://www.clicksmilie.de/sammlung/sport/sport003.gif Kathy S.
Thanks for helping us Yanks with Fifth Element sizing. I can just picture the poor Fifth Element people having this flood of bizarre returns from Americans all of a sudden.
Question for ya -- I've always been curious about the weight measurement "stone." How does that translate into pounds? Years ago when I was working full time my sons had a lovely British nanny for about a year, and I remember that she would fret about gaining weight and weighing "almost 11 stone." (Don't know how I recall that number, but 11 was her perpetual complaint. And to me she looked tall and slim.) I remember asking her about how to translate "stone" into pounds and she really wasn't sure.
Funny story: Kids are total sponges. While Janet was nannying for us, my then 4-year-old older son began to call Scotch tape (our name) "cello tape", and he would come downstairs on Saturday morning and ask me for "a spot of breakfast." He also began to call everything that was wonderful in his life "brilliant."
http://www.clicksmilie.de/sammlung/sport/sport003.gif Kathy S.
RE: Hey Anna, another question
Hi Kathy,
Your post made me laugh :7
A 'spot' of breakfast ! We also say a spot of lunch too ! LOL
Anyway, a stone is the equivalent of 14 pounds (14#s). So if you weigh 8 stone, you are 112#s (just an example). I reckon way back in the Middle Ages, before scales, things were measured with actual stones and pebbles. It seems the only logical explanation for this strange saying !?!?
Anna
Hi Kathy,
Your post made me laugh :7
A 'spot' of breakfast ! We also say a spot of lunch too ! LOL
Anyway, a stone is the equivalent of 14 pounds (14#s). So if you weigh 8 stone, you are 112#s (just an example). I reckon way back in the Middle Ages, before scales, things were measured with actual stones and pebbles. It seems the only logical explanation for this strange saying !?!?
Anna
RE: Hey Anna, another question
Kathy loved your post when we were in New York this year an American friend was showing us he told us about some English friends he was showing around the week before and how as they were walking down a crowed street they said it was "chockablock" he had no idea what it meant but he loved it and kept bringing it into conversation.
As to weights and measurements yes most come from Medieval or earlier they have been standardised overtime. But they were literally stones etc I mean horses are still measured heightwise here in hands.
Babs
Kathy loved your post when we were in New York this year an American friend was showing us he told us about some English friends he was showing around the week before and how as they were walking down a crowed street they said it was "chockablock" he had no idea what it meant but he loved it and kept bringing it into conversation.
As to weights and measurements yes most come from Medieval or earlier they have been standardised overtime. But they were literally stones etc I mean horses are still measured heightwise here in hands.
Babs