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How much is a dress size?

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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 13:52

How much weight in kgs is a dress size?

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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:27
I was a Weight Watchers leader in Australia and on average for my female members a dress size was 6kg (13lb) and for male members a belt knotch was 4kg (9lb). However depending on your body fat distribution and where you lose from first this can vary. My daughter recently lost 5kg and dropped 2 sizes in her work pants. When I lost weight a dress size in the beginning was about 7.5kg but as I got down it was more like 5kg.
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:24
I had to lose 2 stones to drop one dress size.
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:17
I go up and down in weight about a stone on a regular basis, but it never changes my dress size. It really depends on the person.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:16
I think it would depend on how much you weigh for a start, for example, if you were very large, then 3 kg's probably wouldn't change your dress size, but if you were tiny to start off with, then 3 kg's could take you down more. Also, it could depend on your proportions as someone else said. I have lost 2 stone and have only gone down 1 size - the weight went from my b00bs and tummy, but not much from my hips and thighs... :(
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:12
I think it depends on the person surely ? I have lost just over a stone and probably gone down one and half dress sizes ( if that makes sense )
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EW OLDHAND
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 14:05
So about 3kgs - half a stone then? Thanx
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EW GURU
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 13:57
At a diet class the instructor always said you would drop a dress size with every half stone you lost - I only dropped one dress size after losing 1.5 stone - hmphh. <em>edited by jillp on 06/02/2011</em>
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EW EXPLORER
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 13:56
Hope this helps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size
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EW GURU
Latest post on 06 February 2011 - 13:54
Do you mean, if you are a size 12 then how much should you - or the dress - weigh? If its how much the person should weigh, then you can't calculate the dress size on that because its the proportions that count. Otherwise a dress may weight one or two kgs?
 
 

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