I just finished the nth sleeve for Shimmer (pictures to come once I’ve got my camera batteries charged), so now I have to figure out what the heck I’m going to do about the back.
The back measurement is 17″ for the smallest size. That might actually be a little bit too big for me. Now I do want some ease, of course, but I don’t know if I want quite that much ease. My tape measure’s disappeared again so I can’t remeasure right now, but given what I know about my body’s proportions and how I like my garments fitted, I’m fairly sure I’m going to want this about an inch narrower across the back. I’ll have to see how the pattern stretches before I make the final decision, though.
I guess I’m only medium-framed relative to my height. :-P I mean, I haven’t been under 100 pounds since before puberty; I’d hardly call myself skinny. But I keep forgetting that a woman of average height with my upper body width and circumference would be closer to a small. It only seems like I’m a bit wider because I’m shorter. I also have a wacked-out perception of clothing sizes, because of the whole juniors/petite/standard discrepancies.
Whew, that was sort of rambly…
The good thing about this wonkiness is that I’m getting to be a lot more familiar with my actual size. It’s one thing to know that I have a proportionally short torso, but another to know what my torso length actually is, you know?
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