Apropos a sidebar in suz’s post, the WSJ did an article a few days ago on clothing retailers correlating a steady increase in crease in customers ordering multiple sizes ( with corresponding increase in returns) with GLP-1 use. The idea is that weight loss is so steady and often fast that size changes almost weekly. I don’t think they said this explicitly, but idea seemed to me also to be that a customer on such weight loss no longer has a reference point for his/her size—which of course would be worse if retail sizes were very inconsistent even within a specific style. And we all know that the body measurements given aren’t always reliable, plus how a give “ size” is calculated to fit, let alone that people don’t always even measure themselves.

Anyhoo, several retailers were saying it was enough to change profit margins, causing them to rethink return policies, start adding restocking fees, add suggestions/Rec’s on website for how to estimate size.