Size 15, 13, 11 etc

Not really. One retailer's size 14 will be very different to another retailers size 14. ie. Top Shop compared to M&S. I think if you shopped around you'd find a size 14 pair of jeans to fit you. Try ASDA, their jeans seem to come up quite large IMHO

I do think its funny that women's clothes come in these random sizes - 10, 12, 14, 16 whereas lots of men's clothes come in proper measurements. I was thinking about this today as I had to change a pair of trousers for my H. The variety of waist and leg lengths available on a suit was huge. Of course women just have to find the shop that sells the clothes in the size that fits them instead.

I'm sure Levi's used to do between size jeans (but then they might have only done odd numbers, not even ones). But agree with Sunset that the variation between shops is bigger than the variation between sizes.

Branded jeans such as Levi, Rock and Republic etc come in waist sizes such as 25, 26, 27 which I think fit so much better than the shop 10, 12, 14s. I think I read somewhere recently that Asda had started to do 'inbetween' sizes too.

I was in a Asda store in birmingham yesterday and they had exactly what your after

the jeans were called inbetween sizes

hope this helps

The sizes are just numbers. If they named an 8 a 7 and so on would we be wanting half sizes too?

There also often is a massive gap from 16 to 14, as 16 sometimes sits in the plus sizes and so is cut differently to the 14s. I remember one pair of jeans I tried to go down to a size in, the 16s fell down and the 14s wouldnt even do up!

WChickenS. The numbers only mean anything in the context of couture sizing, where 10 means 32-22-32, 12 means 34-24-34, 14 means 36-26-36 etc. In most shops these days being 36-26-36 would make you around a 10- the sizes only mean anything by reference to each other, not across different shops.