I had what I’d like to call a minor clash with the Chinese sizes today.

I was shopping casually around the market in People Square, looking for shoes, clothes, gifts and other stuff, when stumbling over a nice pair of skinny jeans. Nice price, nice pants, but one small problem. Size. The shopkeeper simply took a look at me and, after searching through the jeans rack, said; “Don’t have this large size”. Don’t completely word for word, of course, there were a lot of stuttering and searching for words. But still! I wear XS at home (all right, small in jeans), and in Shanghai I’m too large?

It’s not a new thing that the Chinese females are small. Incredibly small. So small that I sometimes feel like a whale. The Chinese sizes are smaller than the European ones, but this small?

I did find some jeans in the end though. They were also nice skinny jeans (although falsely labelled “Miss Sixty”, will remove all stupid tags later), but not as nice as the too small ones. Size 28 was kinda tight, but usable – and I only have three other pants here.

I just found the perfect knit sweater. Dark grey, warm, cozy and not to mention interesting with those gaps in the sleeves.

Why I would want a home knit jumper? Why, it’s getting colder! And there’s nothing more comfortable than a baby Alpaca wool jumper and a cup o’ hot chocolate when it’s snowing. Not sure if it snows in Shanghai though (according to my “secret” sources, it rarely does) but still!

Waddaya think? Look at that pretty jumper! It’s too bad it’s one of those DIY projects. I’m useless with knitting, and since there’s no “buy it finished” buttons I’ll simply have to keep on dreaming until I find someone who can.