chris and farideh

Good god people you are not moving to war zone Iraq, they have good designer, non designer shops here, I think " Some" young people are better dress here anyway, but they dont have primark, so you have been warned.

louemm

that's great..thanks for your help. david jones i know well from my travels to perth last year...i bought lots and had to sit on my suitcase to close it when i went home!

Ozzidoc

Sizing is supposed to be equivalent?

Never hear that before. In my 17 yrs flitting between the two countries, I was (for years and years) a size 12 in Oz and a 14 in the UK - in the same week...over and over again.

Now I am a 10 in UK and a 8 in Oz (and a 2-4 in US)

alexa7

yes, i heard that Oz size is down 1 size from UK. But re: US sizes, 10 UK is 6 in US, 8 UK is 4 in US and 6 UK is 2 in US...

shiels

The shops here are different yes, but no better or worse than the UK, just different!!!

They do seem to like patterned stuff more here though!!!

Target reminds me of BHS and Davis Jones (dj's) reminds me of Debenhams.

I also think clothes are cheaper too.

Can't commment on underwear as i stocked up with M&S undies before i had to give up my staff discount card!!!! C x

Ozzidoc

Yep....my size changes...sometimes a US 2 is a tiny bit too small and a 4 is almost too big. I'd be most comfortable in a 5.....LOL.

rabsody

Tis funny as i'm more of a size 10 in Aus and a size 8 in UK. *Sigh* the problem is sizes are not standardised anymore ... even within one country. Boys, think yourself lucky you don't have to wear bras ... it's impossible!!!

rabsody

I'm the same! The size 8s are too small just (on the waist mainly) but the size 10s are great on the waist and too hippy (I'm an apple). Gawd it's hard to find things that fit!

sara1981

There seems to be differing views on this, if you search for clothing conversion charts on the net there are many conflicting answers!!

Eg found some that say sizes between UK and Oz are equivalent, some say like you Oz sizes are down a size and I even found one site that said Oz is up a size!! I was just recalling personal experience also from many years visiting Oz and shopping in both countries.

I think like others have said the main problem is that clothing sizes both in the UK and Oz are not standardised. I find in the UK I am a 12 on top and 14 on bottom but in my wardrobe I have tops ranging from sizes 8 to 14 and jeans/skirts/trousers ranging from sizes 12 to 16!! Can be difficult when you go into changing rooms where you can only take max 4 or 5 items to try!!

Whatever the answer, I always feel better the smaller size I can get into so looking forward to getting to Oz!!

Whitby Wanderers

I miss the uk clothes.
Nothing in oz is quite the same. The shops i tend to use are
Witchery and Just Jeans and i look around the other shops and have found some ok clothes.
There seems to be clothes for senior citizens and twelve year olds and not much choice inbetween except for Billabong ...and i do like their range..even if i am not far off 50! :-(
The plus side is that i spend much less on clothes here!

sara1981

Not sure if they still do it, but Jeans West and maybe Just Jeans (not sure on this one) do in between sizes in at least some of their jeans range. Haven't been to Oz for 2 years so may have changed but I used to buy size 13 jeans in Jeans West as couldn't quite get into the 12 but 14 was too big!

Wheeler-Jones

Riddle me this though - in Next one day I bought 2 pairs of jeans - a size 14 and a size 18. WTF!! And I am normally a 16... nI guess it depends on what small Asian child labour factory is making them (oops not sure if that was PC?!)