I found an interesting article on Esquire's fashion blog site. As the article states, women already know this all too well, but buying clothes is often a frustrating exercise due to the "vanity sizing" that goes on with so many companies. As this article makes no mention of kilts, I'm placing it squarely into the "Miscellaneous" forum, but I just thought it would be interesting to comment on the fact that as kilt-wearers, we are mercifully spared much of this kind of corporate deception.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fa...e-chart-090710

Numbers! Should inches be different than miles per hour? Do highway signs make us feel better by informing us that Chicago is but 45 miles away when it's really 72? Multiplication tables don't yield to make us feel better about badness at math; why should pants make us feel better about badness at health? Are we all so many emperors with no clothes
While most people know their body measurements based only on their clothing sizes, that may or may not reflect reality. I would say that most of us here on XMarks likely don't have the problem addressed in the article, given that just about every kiltmaker and kilt-selling retailer insists on accurate waist, thigh, and waist-to-knee measurements in order to provide us with properly fitting garments.

Conclusion: Pants lie. Kilts tell the truth.

Agree?