The Styla Journal
Bridesmaid dresses, brand sizing, measurements and alterations. Every number we publish comes from a brand's own published chart, with the source saved.
Written by Sulaimon Salako, CEO of Styla · How we source our size data →
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Same body. Same measurement. Four different numbers on the label. We read six brands' own published charts — and found out why your size can go down when you shop plus-size.
A 42″ bust, women's tops
From each brand's own published size chart.
Brand guide
No in tops, yes in bottoms — and the brand runs two incompatible size systems at once. A 29.5″ waist has no size in Aritzia trousers but is a clean 29 in Aritzia denim.
Bridesmaid · Size guides
"Bridesmaid dresses run small" is wrong for half the brands we checked. Azazie needs a bigger number than your street size; Kennedy Blue needs a smaller one.
3″
You're not between sizes. Birdy Grey jumps from a 43″ bust to 46″ with nothing in between — and it isn't the only one. Every hole we've found, mapped.
Size guides
Do it properly in four minutes. Then the part every other guide skips: why doing it correctly can still give you the wrong size.
Free, no account needed. Each one runs on the same chart data behind our articles.
Answer a few questions about how clothes fit you. See your size in every brand we cover — including the ones with no size for you.
LiveEvery bridesmaid answers on her own phone. You see everyone's size in your chosen brand, never their measurements.
LiveEnter one measurement and see how seven brands each label the same body.
A brand-pair chart overlay, a measurement converter for brands that publish per-product specs, and a suit size calculator are in progress. We'll list them here when they work.
We don't score these out of five. We show the size range, the step between sizes, and any gap where the chart skips your measurement — because that's what decides whether it fits.
Covers only brands whose published charts we've sourced with provenance — 19 brands, 40 charts today. Jenny Yoo, Revelry and Park & Fifth are next. We'd rather say nothing than guess.
Most sites give you eight "body types" and ask you to pick one. But you can be petite and plus and pear — these are separate things.
Height
Changes hem, inseam and torso length before anything else
Size range
Where you sit relative to where each brand's grid starts and stops
Proportions
Where your own measurements disagree with each other — the real reason one size never fits everywhere
We take a different brand's size chart apart each month and send you what we find. No outfit inspo — just the numbers.
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