The H&M Thread

[Ghostboy]

I love their AW 09 collection for men! Nick Snider is the face of it, I love it :-)
I even made a post about it on my blog, that's how much I love it: the Fair Isle sweaters, the trenches... Love it!

 

[margault]

^^ i saw flat lace-up boots in Elle UK for 30£, but did not see them in store. anyone ?

 

[loverunway]

The skirt that Alexa Chung is wearing [posted on the last page] - is that the leather one or the tafetta-ish one? I love the leather one but the sizing is outrageous! It makes me so angry how i'm a UK6 in every other shop yet in H&M I have to take a size 10 on bottom halfs :|

 

[disfordangerous]

It makes me so angry how i'm a UK6 in every other shop yet in H&M I have to take a size 10 on bottom halfs :|

I've noticed that too, then I realised if you look at the sizing in another shop, a 6 is a euro 34, but in H&M its a 32. So a 6 in H&M is like a size 4 in another shop and an 8 in H&M is like a size 6, if that makes any sence.

 

[loverunway]

disfordangerous- Yeah true but I just thought that was dodgy conversion on their part! That means they only go up to a size 14 which is unusual :/. Also, COS do the same system as they're linked with H&M and their sizes run quite small too!

 

[The_Ida]

^I think H&M's sizing is huge. Their size 34 is often too big on me, and I'm usually a size 36 in just about anything

 

[caroulemapoule]

Loverunway: That sounds very odd? My friend who is a UK8 always in topshop fx. is also a UK8 in the leather skirt?? It's the tafetta'ish skirt Alexa is wearing.

 

[honeycombchild]

H&M runs a different sizing system to Topshop and other high street chains. What H&M classes as a 34, Topshop classes a 36. So their sizing is smaller than any other. I can't tell you why they do it, but it does cause some confusion with the customers!

 

[jaimediane71]

i'm not sure if this has been posted, but I NEED this tweed short suit...i hate not living near an h&m...or maybe it's a good thing b/c i probably would stalk the store every day haha

oh, and i am also dying to get my hands on that rodarte-ish sweater!

(pic from hm.com)

 

[caroulemapoule]

^I ordered that jacket online 2 weeks ago.

Honeycombchild: I find H&M and Topshop sizes very similar.

 

[honeycombchild]

The jacket's Divided Editions isn't it? So it's suffering from the delays! I've no idea why that collection's been delayed.

Caroulemapoule: Really? You're one of the few then! H&M are tiny in sizes, particuarly in the trouser department, but they do definately run a size smaller then Topshop do.

 

[caroulemapoule]

^Maybe they do, but I wouldn't ever believe a UK12 to be a 38 and a UK 14 to be a 40? And so on? That's what you are saying right?

And yes, the jacket is from the DE collection.

 

[honeycombchild]

What I'm saying is a H&M UK 10 would be a Topshop's UK 12. So H&M's version of a 10 is a size smaller than a Topshop 10. If that makes sense?

 

[caroulemapoule]

^OH, I forgot to say that I was talking about topshop sizes, because as I understand it, you say that: UK12 is a EU38 and a UK 14 is a EU40? And so on?

 

[honeycombchild]

A Topshop size UK 12 is a Euro 40, but for H&M a UK 12 is a Euro 38.

So for H&M a Euro 40 would be a UK Size 14.

 

[jaimediane71]

caroulemapoule: you are sooo lucky that you can shop h&m online...i still don't understand why they don't have on-line shopping for the states...is the jacket nice? i'm thinking of having my sister stalk the Boston store for me to get it...

 

[diesanni]

What I'm saying is a H&M UK 10 would be a Topshop's UK 12. So H&M's version of a 10 is a size smaller than a Topshop 10. If that makes sense?

Maybe my logic is off, but wouldn't it be actually a size bigger? If you have to take a Topshop 12 but a 10 at H&M? Would mean that said 10 is cut as large as one size up at Topshop. I'm confused. Need food, can't think...

Edit: Or do you mean that what in fact is a size 10 is labeled an 8 at H&M by "H&M's version of a 10"?

 

[honeycombchild]

It would make Topshop a size bigger than H&M each, yes, and therefore would make H&M run a size smaller than Topshop does which was what I was trying to saying.

Oh I have a sore head trying to do this. Haha

 

[honeycombchild]

I think this would be the best way to explain it!

H&M
6 = 32, 8 = 34, 10 = 36, 12 = 38, 14 = 40, 16 = 42

Topshop
6 = 34, 8 = 36, 10 = 38, 12 = 40, 14 = 42, 16 = 44

 

[frk-frost]

^I think H&M's sizing is huge. Their size 34 is often too big on me, and I'm usually a size 36 in just about anything

I think so too but in their larger collection (Bib) is just the opposit - they're on the smaller side