[miss_sonja]

I just last night had the realization that in pattern sizing, I’m not the same size I am in RTW. I have mostly sewn for my 2 year old or costumes from non-standard patterns, so this is a shock.

I have not yet tried to sew anything from a Big 4 pattern for me, but I had just started tracing a skirt from Simplicity when I had a niggle about double checking size.

I’ve sewn the Liesl & Co. Everday Skirt and used a M, which corresponded to my usual 10-12. It fits fine. So…can I rely on these patterns to be true to RTW sizing?

(I ended up falling down a rabbit hole of message board posts on various forums filled with people ranting about the weird pattern sizing)

[Lightning McStitch]

Liesl and co patterns should match your ready to wear size. Other patterns may not. Here’s the blog post from Liesl about sizing….

finding your correct pattern size

[with love Heidi]

Liesl has a number of fitting posts on the Lisette site. These posts are Big 4 relevant, not Liesl And Co.

finding your sewing pattern size

book recommendation: fit for real people

how Lisette sewing patterns are developed

• This reply was modified 9 years ago by with love Heidi.

[Sarvi]

I’m RTW 8, L&C 8.

[miss_sonja]

Thanks for the links. Mostly, I’m annoyed that I have a set of Lisette patterns which are too small, and the Simplicity ones are out of print.:-(

I just made a muslin of a Simplicity pattern. Used the size 16 and … it fits.