American vs European sizes

Nerin

So i'm totally new to online shopping,found some tshirts on thinkgeek.com that i liked,and bought them.
Now,i generally where my clothes a tiny bit baggy,i wear tshirts as xl,and its purrfect.
Now,my friends have said that american xl,which i've ordered,will be much bigger than the usual xl i buy here.

Is this true? Will i have to change my order asap before i get three tents in the post?

Creamy Goodness

normally i found in america that

their small = our medium
their medium = our large
their large = our XL.
etc etc.

the thing about online and i don't know if thinkgeek do it is that their t-shirts come from different manufacturers you may get fruit of the loom/gilden/american apparrel which means you are screwed as all manufacturers have a different opinon on what a S,M,L ,XL is.

on thinkgeek they have a sizing chart http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/japanese/94b1/sizing/

go grab your favourite t-shirt and whip out the measuring tape and pick the closest one, if you're inbetween go for the next biggest.

kerry4sam

Hey Check out : http://goeurope.about.com/cs/shopping/l/bl_clothes_size.htm

for: Women's Clothing, Dresses and Blouses
for the: US, UK, Europe, Italy and France

and Shoe sizes for the US, UK and Europe (along with sizes for mens' clothing) .

I have found this to be a really good website to help with online shopping.

here.from.day.1

I think its a lot to do with the brand aswell, for example I was in NY recently and all Adidas original, Puma, Converse and Gap clothes were the exact same sizes as here.