"My pants are too long and my clothes are too short, am I already in such bad shape?" On May 30, Ms. Xu, a Taiyuan citizen, kept lamenting after going shopping. After investigation, a reporter from Shanxi Evening News found that many clothes sizes were too exaggerated, which attracted complaints from ladies.
Making longer and longer trousers
On May 29, Ms. Xu took 3 pairs of newly purchased trousers to the mall to cut the hems of the trousers. The 3 pairs of trousers were each cut to about 10 centimeters. . "Who are these pants made for now? Why are they so long?" Ms. Xu complained while waiting.
Ms. Xu is 1.65 meters tall. Before, she always thought her height was okay. In the past two years, she has become less and less confident about her height because of the length of her pants. "Every time I buy pants, I have to cut them off. Basically, I have to cut them down to about 10 centimeters. The average height of women now is more than 1.70 meters?" Ms. Xu said. Ms. Xu’s complaints attracted the echo of many customers around her.
At 5 pm on May 29, in this shopping mall near Jiefang Road in the provincial capital, there was an endless stream of customers coming to have their pants cut. Within an hour of the Shanxi Evening News reporter's observation, at least seven customers came to cut the hem of their pants, and the length they cut off ranged from 5 centimeters to 10 centimeters. The staff said that every time the season changes, they will be busy from morning to night.
A reporter from Shanxi Evening News opened a shopping website, searched for "pants", and randomly opened several links. He found that the length of women's pants in size M is basically 106 centimeters or even longer. Relevant data released in 2024 show that the average height of women aged 18 to 44 in my country is 158 centimeters. Comparing the two, these pants are indeed longer. The situation in physical stores is basically the same. The average length of women's trousers is generally 103 centimeters. Why are pants getting longer and longer? Industry insiders say this is related to fashion trends. In the past two years, wide-leg pants that cover the toes have become popular again. In order to make their legs look longer, many women wear thick-soled dad shoes, and their pants have to be lengthened by 10 centimeters. However, this trouser length is not very friendly to women who don’t like to wear thick-soled shoes. “It doesn’t matter, just cut the edges. Cutting 10 centimeters won’t affect the shape of the pants.” In some shopping malls, counters provide free edge trimming services.
Some online stores that specialize in trousers have also seen this problem. They have launched long and short versions of the same trousers to meet the needs of customers of different heights.
The tops are getting smaller and smaller
What causes Taiyuan girl Xiao Han’s body anxiety is the size of the tops. Xiao Han, who is a junior this year, is 1.70 meters tall and weighs 100 pounds. Xiao Han has always believed that his body shape is on the taller and thinner side. In the past two days, Xiao Han bought several free-size short-sleeved T-shirts from an internet celebrity Hanfu store. "I can't wear them at all. I barely put them on, and it can make people breathless." Xiao Han looked at the online store. One comment in the link was lost in thought, "Are everyone else so thin? Am I too fat to wear one-size-fits-all clothes?"
In fact, there has been a long history of complaints about Hanfu being made smaller and smaller. Long.
Some girls complained about the currentShort skirts are not as long as leggings, and a girl who weighs 80 pounds finds that she cannot fit into a skirt of size XS... Popular science data shows that the formula for calculating the waist circumference of a normal woman = height (cm) ÷ 2-14 (cm), plus A decrease of 5% is within the normal range. Taking a height of 168 centimeters as an example, the waist circumference should be 70 centimeters. The normal range is 66.5 centimeters to 73.5 centimeters, which is also a common waist circumference range. According to the "Fifth National Physique Monitoring Bulletin" issued by the National Physical Fitness Monitoring Center, the average waist circumference of Chinese women basically remains above 70cm. However, this average value is in the size column of many Internet celebrity Hanfu. Not to mention M size (Medium), it is very likely that even L size (Large) cannot be worn.
Data released by a fashion public account shows that among the top ten comprehensively ranked products of Hanfu casual pants and skirts on an e-commerce platform, half of the Internet celebrity Hanfu L sizes have a waist circumference of 70cm or less.
A few years ago, Brandy Melville was popular on social platforms. This brand focuses on "One size fits all". In most cases, the size is only suitable for girls who are thin enough. Therefore, it has formed an online reputation. Not a small topic. It cannot be denied that this kind of clothing that is only suitable for "a few people" will make people feel happy and want to share. As long as they are healthy, fair, young and thin girls are indeed beautiful and pleasing to the eye. But once a trend forms, it can easily become extreme and morbid, and there is even a phenomenon of adult women wearing children's clothing. To this day, although the popularity and topic of BM style has long subsided, the white and thin aesthetic still exists. This aesthetic has given birth to the same type of Internet celebrities. Their clothes have become the style reference for many girls, so the sizes of Hanfu tend to be like this changes.
The Hanfu market needs diverse aesthetics
The size of Hanfu has been shrinking repeatedly, which has troubled many women. Many women have even lost weight just to fit into the staggeringly narrow size. The phenomenon. This craze for a “paper body” is a shackle caused by a single aesthetic. Many businesses use solidified aesthetics to create a morbid and deformed carnival, advocating women to change themselves to adapt to the clothes, and thus continue to deepen this unhealthy aesthetic concept.
Aesthetic diversification is a topic that has attracted much attention in recent years. Correspondingly, it is the singleness of aesthetic culture in today's society. The underlying cause of "appearance anxiety," a widespread emotion among women, is the narrowness and singleness of mainstream aesthetics. Because under certain circumstances, the definition of "beauty" in social concepts is only thin and inherent descriptions such as "white, thin", causing other styles and looks to become "unbeautiful", such distorted judgment standards lead to unhealthy aesthetic singleness, and are incompatible with The intersection of multiple realities creates a sense of fragmentation, making many women feel inferior and anxious about their own "unbeautifulness."
Faced with this kind of binary aesthetic structure, more and more voices and opinions are seeking a more universal and diverse aesthetic, spreading the definition of "beauty" into multiple categories, levels, and dimensions.. In the process of exploring aesthetic diversity, there are also some people who will go to extremes under some external or self-imposed pressure and blindly deny the original single aesthetic culture, leading to the emergence of a binary opposition.
Rejecting a deformed single aesthetic does not mean completely negating the original aesthetic culture, and pursuing aesthetic diversity does not simply mean "going against" the original aesthetic. You can be fat or thin; you can be tall or short. Everything that exists has its own aesthetic perspective. The meaning of diversity lies in freedom and broadness, rather than dividing into different camps. To realize the concept of "aesthetic diversity", we need to create a true hotbed for the growth of multiple aesthetic cultures in terms of cultural environment.
Shanxi Evening News reporter Guo Weiyan
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Don’t look at the size when buying clothes? Clothing sizes are standard!
Hanfu is obsessed with size. Consumers with average body shapes have to choose large sizes when buying clothes, and the fit depends entirely on luck, but clothing sizes are not without standards.
As early as 1997, the National Standardization Administration of China issued the national size standard for Hanfu. In 2008, another version was updated, namely "Women's Clothing Size GB/T 1335.2-2008". The standard divides adult women's body shapes into four categories based on the difference between bust and waist circumference, codenamed Y, A, B, and C. Among them, the most common body shape among Chinese women is type A. The common Hanfu sizing method a few years ago came from this version of the national standard. For example, 160/80A for tops represents an A-shaped body with a height of 160 cm and a bust of 80 cm. Bottoms 160/64A represents a height of 160 cm and a waist of 64 cm. A-type body. It is mentioned in the national standard that height is divided into 5 cm categories, bust is divided into 4 cm categories, and waist circumference is divided into 4 cm/2 cm categories. If merchants follow the national standards and implement them, they can basically cover most women's figures.
If the clothes size is not marked according to the national standard, use simple XS, S, M, L, XL to distinguish the clothes size. Each size has a clear corresponding body dimension and can cover If it reaches most body types, it will not cause much trouble to Hanfu consumers. The key is that even if many Hanfu sizes are differentiated, they do not cover most normal body types.
It is worth mentioning that this version of the national standard mentions that clothing sizes should be centered on the middle body and increase or decrease in order on both sides. The middle body data of type A body listed in the national standard is height 160 cm, bust 84 cm, waist 68 cm, it can be said to be the most common Chinese adult female figure.
This data is also basically consistent with the average height and weight of Chinese adult women. According to the 2020 "Report on Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents", the average height of Chinese women aged 18 to 44 is 158 centimeters and the average weight is 59 kilograms. Whether judging from the national standards for clothing sizes or professional body statistics, most female consumers are not suitable for these outrageously small sizes.Hanfu.
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