Grace Eppinger

Grace Eppinger is a junior at Penn State majoring in English and History. She completed The Tab's 2017 summer fellowship and currently writes for The Tab Penn State.

I tried on the same size at different stores to prove women’s sizes are bullshit

This and the fact our jeans have no pockets are the biggest crimes in fashion

I hate shopping -- it's an exhausting day at the mall trying on 40 different items in a million sizes until I find just one that fits right. For women, sizing is complicated. US clothing stores employ a sizing technique known as "vanity sizing," which means clothing stores have shrunk their sizes over the years in order to make shoppers feel…