I think vanity sizing explains a 10 1/2 being a "chubby" size. Outside the US, where vanity sizing isn't the norm, sizes run very differently. I'm a 4 or 6 in the US, but in New Zealand I'm a 12 or 14. I've even noticed re-sizing going on in my lifetime (I'm 27)-- I used to be a 6 or an 8, and I don't think I've lost significant weight since then. Yet, my clothing size has gone down.

One wonders when this trend will end; it is already possible to buy a size 00. Eventually, will we all be sized in varying numbers of zeros, I wonder?

I lived in the 'Nati for 2 years, and I always took visitors to see "Creepy Jesus", as we called it. I wanted to go to a service there sometime, but was warned that I might encounter proselytizing that verged on stalking. Makes you wonder what the local food pantry or women's shelter could have done with that $250,000.

As an aside, have you been by the Mushroom House yet?