This could probably go in GQ, since I assume there’s a factual answer, but MPSIMS feels like a better fit.
Basically, I want to buy myself a schoolgirl skirt. To wear. For … reasons.
So what women’s clothing size would match a 34-inch waist?
If you look at the official size charts, a US size 18. But the problem is that women’s sizes assume their hips are at least 10 inches wider than their waists. If you are like most men, your waist is wider than your hips, in many cases a whole lot wider.
Unless you plan to wear a padded fanny underneath the skirt, it is going to be really baggy. You might want to look for a 14 or a 16 with an elastic stretch waste. And remember that a lot of clothes have radically inaccurate sizing. Shop somewhere that you can try it on or has a liberal return policy.
And, remember, whenever you need to buy clothes “MPSIMS feels like a better fit.”
I should have added: If you get one that fits too loosely, you will have a hard time getting it to stay up, since you have no hips to hold it up.
Thinking about it, I suppose hip measurement (not a measurement men think about) would be more important for skirt size than waist measurement.
It doesn’t actually have to fit properly. I’m not going to wear it in public. I just need to put it on for one scenario.
Basically, I’m an author of spanking stories, and a number of my stories involve schoolgirls being spanked by parents or teachers. I’ve been writing these stories for … 30+ years. And I have written some completely outrageous spankings.
Several years ago, somebody started a thread here on the SDMB, asking, “What would you do if you could be the opposite sex?” And my answer to that thread was that, if I could become a woman, I would like to be subjected to everything I’ve subjected my fictional characters to. Just to actually experience it for myself.
So I am currently in “negotiations” with a local Domme whom I met on FetLife. i’ve invited her to spank the living daylights out of me, while roleplaying some of the scenes from my stories. Some of those scenes involve flipping up a schoolgirl skirt, so …
If it isn’t large enough in the waist, you won’t be able to pull it on or zip it up. That’s why I think an elastic waist with a bit smaller size would be best. The elastic can stretch a few inches to accommodate a larger waist and then hold snugly in place.
If you can find a Junior’s size with a 34 waist inside the sizing structure on whatever website you’re looking at, that might fit you better. Junior’s for females are meant for people who haven’t developed hips and thighs as much/yet. But - that may be a factor that plays more in pants really. Thinking about it more, maybe just ordering something that falls in the 32" range, and with an elastic waist band, may help. I think you should also wear the skirt on your waist like a girl would - so make sure you’re measuring around or just above your belly button and actually wear the skirt there. The rest of the fit might not matter so much, but the skirt fitted and cinching to your actual waist is part of the female experience.
I’ve done a bit of online shopping and have found the size charts to be pretty good with measurements and telling you which size to wear. For individual garments, there’s usually a note in the description that says whether that garment runs larger or smaller than the size chart, so if you see the size chart tells you to order a size 16, and in the description says the skirt runs small or large and order a size down or up, it’s true. Marketplaces like Amazon will often have sizing listed in the description since so many sellers have weird/off sizing or it’s in metric or Euro. Very helpful.
Size 18 will probably be way too big. If you can try it on, I echo a previous poster and say start with a 14, and also that elastic waist would be best. Something like this.
As a “small waist/big bottom” gal myself, it occurs to me that what you MIGHT want to do, in order to get a skirt that fits properly AND is the correct length (but still carrying off the desired look), you might just commission one of the umpteen million seamstresses of Etsy to make you a skirt. Take your measurements, describe exactly what you’re wanting. You could even select your own fabric.
Trying to find exactly what you’re wanting off the rack sounds like an exercise in frustration, and likely to end with you not being 100% satisfied.
By the way, do you actually have a 34" waist or do you wear men’s pants marketed as a 34" waist? Men like to point and laugh at the vanity sizing that goes on with women’s clothes but the truth is it happens just as much with us.
Depending on the brand, nominal 34" men’s pants could be anywhere from 35" to 42". It can be pretty much anything besides actually 34" or less. If a size 18, for example, were actually 34 inches, it’d be way too tight unless you’re measuring your waist instead of looking at the label on your pants.
Specifically, I’m looking at something like this. That would ride at my hips, rather than my waist/above my navel as somebody described above.
Ultimately, realism isn’t a consideration. As I said, I’m not going to wear this thing out in public. It will basically be a “prop” in a fantasy scenario, in the privacy of my own home.
Well, I’m pretty “brand loyal” with my pants, and I assume a bit of sizing consistency within the same brand. Most of my “street” pants are Wranglers, and my work pants are Dickies. Over the last few months I’ve managed to lose 35-40 pounds (that last 5 pounds keeps coming back), so I’m down from 215 to 175, and I can’t wear my 36" pants without a belt. A while ago I forgot to put on a belt before I went grocery shopping and had the embarrassment of having to constantly hike up my pants while walking around the store.
So I’ve bought some new pants, one pair of Wranglers and one pair of Dickies, both marked “34x30”, and they fit just right. I also have a pair of still-new-condition 34" Calvin Klein jeans that I purchased several years ago, and then soon couldn’t wear anymore. I went 14 years without a driver’s license, walking and bicycling everywhere, which helped me maintain my weight between 165-170. Shortly after buying those jeans (which fit perfectly at the time), I regained my driver’s license and got a car … and my weight shot up because I cut out the daily exercise without adjusting my eating habits. I actually peaked at 225 pounds.
Do you know someone who sews?
As a user of the Internet for years, I’m assuming you knew how to google that info. I get the feeling you just wanted to share your kink with us.
I do, but … as she was the subject of my “Unrequited Love” thread, this isn’t something I’m going to share with, or ask of, her.
Oh, I first shared my kink here years ago, and have never made a secret of it. And, frankly, I find having a conversation to be more enjoyable than solitary Googling.
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Good luck with that.
I currently am wearing a pair of jeans that are size 14W. I also own 16W, 18W, 18 misses, and 16 misses. They all are made by different manufacturers and all fit me today.
There is no standard fit for women’s clothing, anywhere. Generally it fits the same across a brand name, but not always.
If you don’t have hips (and some guys do), you’ll do best in juniors plus sizes. I’d suggest measuring very carefully and going from there. Amazon is your friend. Get returnable things.
MisterRik, measure yourself, not at “your” waist, but wherever you want the waist of the skirt to actually go. If what you want is the classical schoolgirl skirt with the folds, those are a modified man’s kilt and ride much better on the narrow hips of a man or a young girl than on a woman with a bad case of curves.
One time I bought skirts from a store whose owner insisted I wasn’t “wearing them right, they go down at the hip!” Once I’d finished zipping them up, she had to admit that they looked just fine waist-to-waist and that if I’d worn them the way she wanted, she didn’t have my size. But as Alley Dweller said, I expect you don’t have a 14" difference from waist to hip.
Leave it to this place to make things waaaay more complicated than it needs to be.
OP, get a tape measure.
Measure where you want the top of the skirt to be. That’s your waist size. The skirt will still stay up if your ass is flat. You just won’t have a hump in the back.
http://www.hipsandcurves.com/plus-size-sexy-schoolgirl-skirt
Look at the size chart. Find your waist measurement. Measure your hips just to be sure they will fit. If so, place the order for the skirt and whatever else you want.
Okay, I’ve made myself a makeshift skirt by cutting the legs off and crotch out of an old pair of much-too-large cargo pants. I still have to wear a belt to hold it up, but the waistband rides just at the top of my hip bone, where I would want the waistband of a proper skirt to sit.
I was going to take a picture, but then it occurred to me that nobody wants to see that.
Well then, I’m sure you could find someone online who could make one. You can’t swing a dead cat without finding an online seamstress, as someone posted above.
No offense, but…ew.
Huh? I don’t think I’ve worn a waistband at my actual waist since my mom was dressing me. I have a long waist and the actual narrowest part is just below my rib cage and several inches above my navel. I usually wear waistbands just below or just at my navel. I sure don’t go around with my pants pulled up to my ribs.
Hell, sometimes they’re not even consistent within the same style of the same brand. I have two different sizes of Levis 529 jeans. Apparently using a different color fabric requires they make the waistband an inch smaller, for some reason. And yes, I checked, literally laying the two pair of jeans on top of each other. Same size on the tag, but the dark blue pair was an inch smaller.
This is why I hate clothes shopping.
Yeah, I need to acquire a cloth tape measure. Attempting to measure my hips with the metal tape measure from my toolbox gives me a measurement of 38-39 inches, because I can’t pull it tight.