--- title: A Woman Calls Out Ridiculous Clothing Sizes In Facebook Post description: Deena Shoemaker called out the ridiculousness of women's clothing sizing in a viral Facebook post. canonical: https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-21T18:55:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:12.101Z og:title: A Viral Facebook Post Just Confirmed Our Thoughts About Women's Clothing Sizes og:description: No two jeans fit the same og:url: https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25af1912df5c9541/6988b3afa988cadbe96ba809/clothing-size-viral-facebook-post.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Folded Jeans Kept On Shelves In Shop og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Viral Facebook Post Just Confirmed Our Thoughts About Women's Clothing Sizes twitter:description: No two jeans fit the same twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25af1912df5c9541/6988b3afa988cadbe96ba809/clothing-size-viral-facebook-post.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Viral Facebook Post Just Confirmed Our Thoughts About Women's Clothing Sizes by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 21, 2016 6:55 PM UTC  Processed with VSCOcam with f2 preset Processed with VSCOcam with f2 presetGetty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 21, 2016 6:55 PM UTC They say no two pairs of jeans are exactly the same, which is why [shopping](http://motto.time.com/4586016/shopping-multitasking/) can often be more of a headache than a relaxing experience. That’s why Deena Shoemaker, a youth mentor from Wichita, Kansas, has “a bone to pick” with clothing makers over obscure sizing practices. In a now-viral [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211468733300821&set=a.3222576730133.158457.1437902569&type=3&theater), she calls out the ridiculousness of it all, [reports](https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurenstrapagiel/you-are-lovely?utm%5Fterm=.smoz4qOMEm#.gcM2J9noqV) _BuzzFeed_. Shoemaker found inspiration for her post after scouring her closet for clothes to donate to a family whose house burned down. She quickly realized that her closet wasn’t exactly one-size-fits-Shoemaker. Her post is accompanied by a photo of her wearing pants of different sizes, showing that they all have a similar fit. She wrote, “As I was going through my clothes tonight I started to notice how dramatically different the size of all my pants were. And I have a real problem with the fact that my size 5 pants fit me THE EXACT SAME WAY that my size 12 pants do.” She implies that when stores [change sizes](http://time.com/4477888/clothing-vanity-sizing/) to make them bigger, it can morph into numerous self-esteem issues. Shoemaker called out Photoshop and the fallacy of retouching models: “At this point it’s a pretty universally known truth that you’re lying to us and those aren’t accurate portrayals of the human body.” She continued, “But when you resize a girl’s pants from a 9 to a 16 and label it “[plus size](http://motto.time.com/4485397/tim-gunn-plus-size-women-op-ed/),” how am I supposed to fight that? Photo manipulation is one thing but how do you expect me to convince her that the number printed inside her clothes is a lie too?” Shoemaker encouraged her mentees not to focus on the number on their clothes: “Your size doesn’t determine your beauty; your life does.” \[[BuzzFeed](https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurenstrapagiel/you-are-lovely?utm%5Fterm=.smoz4qOMEm#.gcM2J9noqV)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/"},"headline":"A Viral Facebook Post Just Confirmed Our Thoughts About Women's Clothing Sizes","datePublished":"2016-12-21T18:55:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:12.101Z","description":"No two jeans fit the same","url":"https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25af1912df5c9541/6988b3afa988cadbe96ba809/clothing-size-viral-facebook-post.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25af1912df5c9541/6988b3afa988cadbe96ba809/clothing-size-viral-facebook-post.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Folded Jeans Kept On Shelves In Shop","caption":"Folded Jeans Kept On Shelves In Shop","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4609294/a-viral-facebook-post-just-confirmed-our-thoughts-about-womens-clothing-sizes/","name":"A Viral Facebook Post Just Confirmed Our Thoughts About Women's Clothing Sizes"}}]}] ```