When it comes to clothing sizes, many of us are in denial. It can be really difficult to be honest about our actual size when we’ve been taught to believe that having a size six body is the only appropriate way to look.
But for popular blogger Constance Hall, an attempt to fit into a size six dress while shopping over the weekend taught her a valuable lesson.
The Perth mother-of-four posted a Facebook status to her almost 900,000 fans about her awkward ordeal, and it quickly went viral.
Hall writes that while searching the racks for a new dress, a shop assistant approached her to say, “Sorry darling, those racks are size 6s and 8s only, the other racks will be better for you.”
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Constance Hall on Instagram.
Initially, the blogger was offended. She assured the shop assistant that she was actually a size 6, despite them both knowing she wasn’t.
“That’s when we shared one of those awkward moments,” recounts Hall. “The ones where she knows I’m lying, I know that she knows that I’m lying, she knows that I know that she knows that I’m lying…”
Oh, we know the feeling.
Upon trying the small dress on, and finding that, indeed, it didn’t fit, Constance Hall took a photo, which pretty much captures how all of us feel in dressing rooms.
Hall left the change room and told the shop assistant that unfortunately the colour just wasn't great on her, to which the woman replied, "Wow, you are one of those beautiful women that I would think suits every colour."
Top Comments
I don't understand why she insisted on trying on a size she knew was way too small? I'm always embarrassed when I underestimate my size and have to ask for a bigger one. That said I don't think it's a good idea for a shop assistant to, uninvited, tell you what size you are. I've had that problem in a shop, but I really was the smaller size, the assistant refused to believe me that I was the size jeans I said I was (I already owned a pair by that brand so was fairly confident), she wanted to give me a size that I am not in any brand and have never been even at my heaviest. She kept saying she was this size so I couldn't be that size. It was all I could do not to point out that just because she was shorter than me did not mean she had narrower hips/thighs. It was so vindicating to be right about my size that I bought the jeans. But I've also never been back to that shop.
I used to be an 8 or 10 (that's 20+ years ago). I am now a 4, 6, 8, or 10. I'm bigger and heavier than I was 20+ years ago. Bras and jeans have stayed the same, I've gone from a 10a to a 10c in a bra, and from a 7 to a 9 in jeans.