Bershka sizes....

stop animal cruelty · 15-10-2012 7:10pm #1

I found a dress on the Bershka website I wana get but the sizes seem a bit...really small or something?!

I would be a size 12, which is usually a medium but I looked at there measurments & its seems the large would be my size. I have no problem with that but I'm just wondering are there sizes small? I know there a spanish brand and was thinking there are cause alot of spanish women are petite.

I measured my hips & waist etc but the large is still to small

I'v never bought anything from Bershka before.

So should I get a larger size up or what?

Your thoughts please

im invisible · 15-10-2012 7:14pm

go with XL so

leaveiton · 15-10-2012 7:20pm

I find them very small fitting, I'm a size 6/8 and would often get a medium in their clothes as the small is too tight!

stop animal cruelty · 15-10-2012 7:30pm

im invisible wrote: »

go with XL so

no XL

MagiD · 15-10-2012 7:34pm

I can't buy anything in there, I'm a size 12-14 and the clothes in there never seem to fit

stop animal cruelty · 15-10-2012 7:42pm

MagiD wrote: »

I can't buy anything in there, I'm a size 12-14 and the clothes in there never seem to fit

ah pity, they have loads of nice stuff, it must be because its a spanish clothing line the sizes are so small

Siuin · 16-10-2012 1:09am

Such a relief to read this thread! Was trying dresses on in Bershka and despite being a size 6/8, the size small would hardly get over my head!

stop animal cruelty · 16-10-2012 12:52pm

ok think I better get the large, hope it'l fit now!

miss no stars · 16-10-2012 1:01pm

Bershka, Stradivarius, Zara, Pull and Bear... they're all under the same parent company.

Although Zara is a Spanish company, I find their sizes okay whereas I find Bershka to be very small indeed. I think it's less to do with the country of origin (Spanish people aren't that small???) and more to do with the age they aim at. Bershka aims young. A 14 year old size 8 girl probably doesn't have hips or boobs to speak of, so they cut straighter fitting and slightly smaller. If that 14 year old went into M&S and found a size 8 there (I mention M&S cos I find they consistently run quite true to size) they'd be swamped.

I'm a size 8/10 and I'd be a M/L in Bershka so if you're a 12 you'd be a L/XL.

CamillaRhodes · 16-10-2012 3:57pm

I find Bershka particularly small-fitting on the legs / thighs / bum. I used to be (before getting pregnant) a size 10-12 (10 up top, 12 down below). I have a couple of tops from Bershka in a medium which fit grand, knitwear fits great and had a medium dress which was loose-fitted below the waist and also fit grand. But any time I would try on trousers or skirts in there, even in an XL I'd hardly fit my (admittedly slightly rotund but not that huge) legs or bum into

Too depressing.

cloud_dancer · 16-10-2012 6:05pm

I'm an 8 to 10 and a medium would fit me snug in bershka. I find zara and h&m can be a bit small but bershka have to be the worst. Def made for anorexic 12 year olds!

rainbow kirby · 16-10-2012 8:30pm

cloud_dancer wrote: »

I find zara and h&m can be a bit small but bershka have to be the worst. Def made for anorexic 12 year olds!

This in a nutshell, they're cut for very straight-up-and-down figures too and run small, disaster for me so I don't even try.

cloud_dancer · 17-10-2012 11:30am

rainbow kirby wrote: »

This in a nutshell, they're cut for very straight-up-and-down figures too and run small, disaster for me so I don't even try.

I'm slim, an 8 to 10 but quite curvy I've a bum and hips so the jeans wouldn't go near me. Couldn't get them over my bum! Could only ever buy dresses or tops from bershka.

dollybird2 · 22-10-2012 12:47am

I have always found Bershka jeans stretch so buy them tight. The sizing has changed in the past couple of years in my opinion. I'm a 12 and the M size always fitted until 2010. The M clothes I have from Bershka still fit that were bought a couple of years ago but now I have to buy L/XL from the brand. Leg length in trousers is crazy, always has to be altered for me and I'm 5foot 5

stop animal cruelty · 22-10-2012 12:50am

dollybird2 wrote: »

I have always found Bershka jeans stretch so buy them tight. The sizing has changed in the past couple of years in my opinion. I'm a 12 and the M size always fitted until 2010. The M clothes I have from Bershka still fit that were bought a couple of years ago but now I have to buy L/XL from the brand. Leg length in trousers is crazy, always has to be altered for me and I'm 5foot 5

thinking of getting the L..hope they still have the dress!

dollybird2 · 22-10-2012 12:56am

I'm sure it will be fab!

panda100 · 22-10-2012 7:22pm

Ok, I must be the only one on here who loves,loves Bershka's sizes.

I'm 6'1 and a size 12.I wouldn't have much in the way of a bum or boobs. Bershka and Stradvarius are always my go to shops when I'm in Dublin. The arms and legs lengths are so long. I usually opt for the Medium size, and I would be a size 12. I would find Pennys closthes to be a lot more tight fitting tbh.

Rasmus · 22-10-2012 7:48pm

Where is the Bershka in Dublin?

panda100 · 22-10-2012 9:53pm

Rasmus wrote: »

Where is the Bershka in Dublin?

In Jervis,Blanchardstown and Dundrum shopping centres

kat.mac · 24-10-2012 2:36pm

MagiD wrote: »

I can't buy anything in there, I'm a size 12-14 and the clothes in there never seem to fit

Same as, incredibly irritating

Lia_lia · 24-10-2012 8:13pm

I'm the same size in Bershka as I am anywhere else

But I don't have anything curve-wise soooo..

dancingqueen · 24-10-2012 11:35pm

It is refreshing as a smaller, petite, 6-8 sized woman, with a boyish figure, to find clothes that don't have inches for the hips I don't have..... Yay for Bershka!

cloud_dancer · 25-10-2012 6:43am

panda100 wrote: »

Ok, I must be the only one on here who loves,loves Bershka's sizes.

I'm 6'1 and a size 12.I wouldn't have much in the way of a bum or boobs. Bershka and Stradvarius are always my go to shops when I'm in Dublin. The arms and legs lengths are so long. I usually opt for the Medium size, and I would be a size 12. I would find Pennys closthes to be a lot more tight fitting tbh.

It's great for tall slim ladies alright!

A couple of my friends would only buy their jeans there for a while. They do long lengths really well.

The Cool · 25-10-2012 10:12am

Somebody mentioned how Zara is also a Spanish brand - however, I find that Zara seems to have adapted its sizes accordingly over here. They'd have more stores outside Spain than Bershka would, I think. I lived in Spain for a year and found the sizes in Zara there quite small, but find them ok over here. Bershka is just a disaster altogether. Spanish ladies are a lot less curvy than us though - they may have bums but they tend to be very small chested, if you wanted a bra any bigger than a 34B you'd have to go to the big department stores or underwear shops for old ladies!

stop animal cruelty · 26-10-2012 7:17pm

Finally managed to get my dress. Got the large & fits like a glove! As l said in the OP l'm a size 12.

http://www.bershka.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product/bershkaie/en/40109502/32029/1798010/Bershka%2Bdress%2Bwith%2Bruffled%2Bwaist

Happy out with it

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