I could use it as a tent!

Probably an 8 will suffice if you were looking to buy a 14. I do know that their clothes aren't the sizes they say they are, especially their trousers, but that's another story !

Bonmarche is the opposite. I wanted a size 18 jacket/anorak with plenty of room. I ended up buying a beautiful one but to move and breathe, it is size 24!

I am lucky the shops are only a couple of miles away but it is a pain.

Sizing is luck of the drawer these days. It bears no correlation with any known standard sizing table.

A couple of years ago I went to Sainsbury's and bought three summer tops, in three different sizes; 8, 10, 12. All tried on and all were the size that actually fitted me.

I always used to find that Bonmarche were generous in sizing, but they have a new designer now instead of David Emmanuel,and I don`t like their clothes much anymore. I don`t know if he`s had anything to do with the difference in sizing.

I know just what you mean.
These days the sizing differs from shop to shop. In one I’m a size 12, in another a 14 and in a third, size 16. I’ve even gone up to an 18.
It’s so hard to know just what size we are these days!,