A bit of a moan

I noticed this a few a few years ago from M&S but with their slippers. I am convinced the stores go to the cheapest supplier to cut costs. Therefore the end result is that the goods are not such quality and materials are shoddy.

I found this with m & s jeans particularly , I take several size 12 in changing room and they all vary!!! The same with Next jeans too! I’ve given up ordering them on line due to this reason.

I don't know why they bothering sizing anything. Sizes are always inconsistent.

If I order online I always order more than one size but, as OP says, even within sizes items can differ.

I just go to the shop and try them on. Saves a lot of time and moaning!

I buy trousers from Lands End. There sizing is consistent.

What I find is highly erratic is 'description' sizing - small, medium, large. I am a size 10/12 and in most cases this equates with 'small', but I was ordering a clothing present for DGD this weak - who is a size 12, so I clicked on 'small', then some guardian angel of my shoulder, whispered 'check' so I did and the company involved 'descrption sizing went: Size 6, very small; size 8, small; size 10, medium; size 12, large!!
So I have ordered her a large size sweater!!

I go to Bon Marche for their sizing of nether garments which is consistently accurate and easy to understand; They also have uncomplicated distance buying with easy returns.

Ok......so many years ago I worked at a manufacturing company who contracted for M&S.......think back in the day when clothing WAS made in Britain.
I know for a fact that if an order for certain garments in specific sizes could not be met then lower or higher sizes of the identical garments were relabelled! Sneaky and underhand but it does explain the inconsistency in sizes.

I am not excusing M&S, but I find that the same size, but different style of jeans can fit very differently.

Chums make really good jeans, with comfortable stretch fabric and different leg lengths. Waist and inside leg measurements often asked for rather than stock sizes.
I never usually buy trousers from high street retailers without trying on but haven’t needed to do this with chums, the trousers are exactly what it says on the tin.

I’ve just bought a set of three bras from M & S and half a dozen pairs of matching knickers. The bras are perfect, the size 12 knickers big enough to house a family of four. I couldn’t tell until I unwound them carefully from the totally unnecessary grippy plastic hangers they came with.

DH has dubbed them my Bridget Jones’.

Years ago I bought 2 pairs of trousers from M&S labelled as same size and style, but different colours. Only one pair fitted. I was told different colours are made in different countries.

I bought some thick tights this week medium to large thinking they would be big as I am a petite size 12.
Oh how wrong I was they wouldn’t go past my knees. I ended up with XXLarge which just fit. What on earth is going on.

Lovemylife

Years ago I bought 2 pairs of trousers from M&S labelled as same size and style, but different colours. Only one pair fitted. I was told different colours are made in different countries.

Or........it may have been a case of re-labelling by a manufacturer to meet a specific size order - see my comment upthread, 29th November 12.42hrs. And I am not b*********ng, that did used to happen regularly.

I take no notice of the M &S size label - they are never what I expect! Have given up thinking their size 16s are all the same - they are not !!!!
I always try on and take what fits regardless of what the label tells me.

keepingquiet

I just go to the shop and try them on. Saves a lot of time and moaning!

A lot of online shops don't have a physical shop

I bought my son a pair of trousers from Littlewoods years ago and found coinmarks in the pocket, someone had put on a new pair and left old ones on hanger!

I wonder whether M&S are sourcing their clothes from Far Eastern manufacturers. I no longer buy clothes made in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, etc, as the makers seem to have a mental block when it comes to what they think of as a "normal" female shape! Maybe they think all women are slim and tiny, like little boys. If they do think "bigger" they generally just think "longer" so you get skinny trousers with loooong legs or tops long enough to come halfway down the thighs but the same width top-to-bottom. It's odd really, as European women are in general bigger than ever, in all directions, and surely the message would have got to even the remotest areas by now?!

Same here......I've got 4 pairs of same design, but different colour M&S 'jeggins' all the same size allegedly.....but all fit differently! A couple are way too loose and baggy around the hips and others are on the tight side!

NonGrannyMoll

I wonder whether M&S are sourcing their clothes from Far Eastern manufacturers. I no longer buy clothes made in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, etc, as the makers seem to have a mental block when it comes to what they think of as a "normal" female shape! Maybe they think all women are slim and tiny, like little boys. If they do think "bigger" they generally just think "longer" so you get skinny trousers with loooong legs or tops long enough to come halfway down the thighs but the same width top-to-bottom. It's odd really, as European women are in general bigger than ever, in all directions, and surely the message would have got to even the remotest areas by now?!

Just looking at all the labels they state made in Bangladesh (for all 5 pairs of M&S jeggings I have) - though they all fit differently!

And weirdly the short in the trouser measurement are no longer short..I’m 5”2 and M&S short were always perfect..I was complaining recently to one of their sales assistants and she said my mother says exactly the same thing..So i don’t buy their trousers anymore..I will sometimes go for their Capri trousers in the Summer..And whats the one-size thats always left over in the sales - Long…

And whats the one-size thats always left over in the sales - Long…

Maybe they keep the Long ones hidden away - I've had to visit three different M&S stores to find some Long jeans. I get very cheesed off when there are mainly Short sizes.

I’ve just been to their outlet, utter rubbish! I don’t know how they keep going with the quality & prices they charge

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GG76

First world problems, Get a life.

How rude!

Of course it is a first world problem because we live in the first world, Second or third or fourth world problems are different because they are appropriate to their worlds.

Although, given the internet there are probably people in India, Namibia or Uruguay who are fed up with the inconsistent sizing on M&S clothes they buy online.