Torrid vs Lane Bryant vs Eloquii Sizing: The Conversion Chart That Should Exist

The first time I ordered from Torrid, I clicked into a moto jacket I’d been circling for a week, saw “2” on the size tag, decided it had to be a misprint or a straight-size listing that had wandered into the plus section, and very nearly closed the tab. It was neither. That tag was cut for my body - the same body that answers to a completely different number at Lane Bryant, another at Eloquii, and a letter at Universal Standard. All of them hang in my closet right now. All of them fit. Nobody tells you that at checkout, and no store hands you the phrasebook for its private sizing dialect.

Here’s the part that actually annoys me as an editor: the question “what’s a Torrid 2 at Lane Bryant” gets asked constantly, and the best answers on the entire internet are a Reddit comment and a blog post from 2015. So we built the chart that should exist. Every number below comes from the brands’ own published size charts, pulled and dated this week, not from folklore. Where a brand hides its chart or its numbers contradict the common wisdom, I say so, because that gap between what brands publish and what shoppers believe is exactly where your money goes to die.

The Conversion Chart, Built From the Brands’ Own Numbers

Find your row by your tape measurements, not by whatever size you wear somewhere else. Bust is measured at the fullest point, waist at the natural waist. Every cell is what that brand’s published chart assigns to those measurements.

*Eloquii’s 10 and 12 exist only in its 11 Honoré line, per its own chart. **Torrid’s published chart has no size between its 3 (bust tops out at 54″) and its 4 (bust starts at 56″). That two-inch no-man’s-land is real and it’s in their own table. ***Torrid’s 5 starts at a 60″ bust, so the bottom of this band has no exact Torrid home either.

And because letter sizes are where conversions really go wrong, here’s what the same “1X” means at each store, straight from their charts:

Same letter, up to two sizes of daylight. If you shop by the X, you’re gambling.

How to Actually Use This Thing

First, measure yourself this month, not from memory. A soft tape measure costs less than the return shipping you’ll pay guessing. Bust at the fullest point wearing the bra you’d wear with the garment, waist where you crease when you bend sideways, hip at the fullest part with your feet together. Those three numbers move between brands with you. The size on the tag doesn’t.

Second, pick the column that matches what you’re buying. For tops and dresses, follow your bust row and let the waist ride; Lane Bryant’s own chart says that when bust and waist point to two different sizes, order by bust. For bottoms, waist and hip rule, and bust is irrelevant. Most of these brands publish separate bottoms charts with the same waist and hip numbers as their master chart, so the rows above hold.

Third, respect the ranges. Lane Bryant grades in tidy two-inch steps from the bottom of its chart to the top, which makes it the most predictable ruler in the business. Torrid and Eloquii hold that discipline through the middle of their ranges and then start taking bigger leaps near the top. That’s why a conversion that’s dead accurate mid-chart drifts by a full size at the upper end. The chart above accounts for it; a decade-old blog post doesn’t.

Same Number on the Tag, Different Body Underneath

This is the table I actually want screenshotted, because it shows the disagreement instead of hiding it. Below, one size tag per row, and the bust each brand’s published chart assigns to it. Reading across a row tells you whether a brand cuts that number bigger or smaller than its neighbors. The three tables are split up so they read on a phone.

Bust, in inches, by size tag:

Natural waist, in inches, by size tag:

Hip, in inches, by size tag (heads up: Lane Bryant and Torrid measure “low hip,” Eloquii, Universal Standard and Target measure the fullest hip, so read this one directionally):

Sit with the 28 row for a second. Lane Bryant and Torrid disagree by a full eight inches of bust on that one number. Lower down the chart, these brands mostly agree within an inch or two and the folklore conversions work fine. Up top, the charts diverge hard, and that’s the territory where “I’m always the same size” costs you two return labels a month. If you take one thing from this article, take that.

Torrid: The 00-6 System, Decoded and Fact-Checked

Torrid’s numbers are just US sizes with the math pre-done: each digit on their tag covers two neighboring regular sizes, and the master table up top spells out every pairing. The one everyone actually asks about: a Torrid 2 is an 18/20. Which means the Reddit shorthand that’s been carrying the entire conversion economy for years holds up against Torrid’s own chart. Vindication for that one anonymous commenter.

Where the folklore falls apart is at the top. Past the mid-range, Torrid quietly stops pairing sizes and starts cutting each number enormous, so the same tag sits two or three sizes bigger there than it would at Lane Bryant. Their chart also has a genuine hole near the top: a two-inch stretch of bust that no Torrid size claims at all, marked in the footnote under the master table. That gap explains a decade of “this one cuts me in half but the next one falls off” reviews. None of it is a manufacturing accident; it’s printed in their own table.

In their denim, the two-sizes-per-number thing is also why the same Bombshell skinny can fit two friends a full size apart. When I’m buying Torrid, I’m a 1 on top and a 2 on the bottom, and I always check whether I’m the top or bottom half of the number’s range before ordering anything cut slim through the hip.

One more thing you should know: Torrid currently hides its size chart behind a bot-verification wall, so you can’t even Google your way to it. The numbers above come from an archived copy of Torrid’s own chart page, details in the methodology below.

Lane Bryant: The Straight Ruler Everyone Else Bends Around

Lane Bryant is the metronome of this comparison: every size adds exactly two inches everywhere, all the way up, and the letter mapping is clean. It’s the only brand here whose chart runs to a 40, and the only one where “size up one” means the same thing at the bottom of the range and the top. If you know your Lane Bryant size, you can navigate every other column in this article. That predictability is worth actual money; returns to a Lane Bryant store are also free, per their own size chart page, which quietly makes them the lowest-risk fit gamble in the group.

The catch is the hip. At any given bust, Lane Bryant’s chart assumes a noticeably straighter hip than Eloquii’s or Universal Standard’s; their default block is simply drafted for a straighter figure. They know it, too, which is why their Curvy jeans chart exists: same waist, three more inches of hip, per their own table. If Lane Bryant pants fit your waist and pull at your seat, you’re not between sizes, you’re in the wrong block; the Curvy fit in their Boost denim is the chart-correct fix, in your usual number.

Eloquii: Runs a Size Generous, and Their Chart Admits It

Eloquii prints every size roughly an inch and a half roomier than Lane Bryant’s same number, and that’s not vanity sizing gossip; it’s right there in their published chart. It matches the long-running buyer consensus that Eloquii runs generous. In practice: if Lane Bryant calls you a 16, Eloquii’s 14 will often do, especially in their structured wovens. I learned that on my own bust, and now I buy the smaller number in anything tailored, including the Kady fit pant, which is the piece I’d use to calibrate your Eloquii size before buying anything else there.

Credit where due: Eloquii is the only brand in this table that publishes a biceps measurement per size, which matters enormously if sleeves are your recurring fit failure, and their chart runs deeper than most in select styles. Two quirks to know. First, their grading changes gear near the top: tidy two-inch steps through the middle, then wider jumps, so conversions that work mid-chart drift at the upper end. The master table absorbs that for you. Second, their own international conversion table prints a “25” where a 24 should be. It’s a typo on their page as published, and I mention it so you don’t try to order one.

Universal Standard: Different Labels, Familiar Numbers

Universal Standard’s letter system reads like a riddle until you see the trick: they’ve re-centered the alphabet around the actual average American body, so an 18-20 wears the M. From there the ladder is perfectly regular - each letter up or down moves you two sizes - and the full run covers as much of the size spectrum as Lane Bryant’s, which nobody else here manages. The master table up top matches every letter to its numbers, so I won’t recite the alphabet at you.

Here’s the finding that surprised me at my desk: Universal Standard’s bust, waist and hip numbers are identical to Eloquii’s, digit for digit, through the entire shared range. Same measurements at every size, same gear change near the top. Universal Standard’s chart is Eloquii’s chart wearing different labels. So if you know your Eloquii number, you already know your Universal Standard letter: find your row in the master table and read across. Their denim runs on the same chart, which makes the Seine high rise jean a safe first order, and their Fit Liberty program will exchange it free for a year if your size shifts, per the standing offer on their site. It’s the least punishing size-guessing environment in this article.

The Big-Box Anchors: Old Navy, Ava & Viv, Terra & Sky

These three matter because they’re where the largest number of plus-size shoppers actually buy, and their charts pull some quiet tricks. Old Navy starts its letters a full size later than Lane Bryant does and stops its published plus chart earlier than the dedicated brands do. Its waists also run trim for the tag, a few inches leaner than Eloquii’s at the same number. If Old Navy bottoms keep failing you at the waistband while the hip fits, that gap is why. When their cut works for you, the High-Waisted Wow jean in plus is the cheapest way in this article to put a chart row on your actual body and learn your band.

Target’s Ava & Viv publishes a real chart, and it’s a decent one, with one trap: the same letter starts a full size later at Target than it does at Lane Bryant, and Ava & Viv’s waist numbers sit close to Eloquii’s roomier ones, so the line runs bigger than the tag suggests if you’re calibrated to Lane Bryant. Their chart even contains its own typo (a hip printed as 56.6 where the pattern says 56.5), which I point out with affection, as someone whose job is apparently reading size charts so you don’t have to. Fit-test the brand cheaply with a pair of Ava & Viv high rise straight jeans before trusting it for anything occasion-wear.

Walmart’s Terra & Sky is the honesty test of this whole exercise, so here’s the honest answer: Walmart does not publish an open measurement chart for the brand anywhere we could verify. The chart exists only as an image buried inside individual product pages, unlinkable and invisible to search. What Walmart’s own listings do confirm is the label mapping in the 1X table above, plus a range that starts at a 14W and runs deep. Buyer reviews on Walmart’s own product pages lean toward “runs big, size down,” but I can’t check that against a published spec because there isn’t one. For anything forgiving, like the Terra & Sky pull-on jeggings, the stretch will cover the ambiguity. For anything structured, open the size chart image on that exact listing before you buy, because the brand-level answer genuinely does not exist. If a Walmart merchandiser is reading this: publish the chart. I’ll link it.

Where Every Number in This Article Comes From

All charts were pulled and transcribed on July 3, 2026, from each brand’s own published size guide: Lane Bryant’s size chart page, Eloquii’s size chart page, Universal Standard’s size and body measurement chart (which they publish as an image on their size guide page; we transcribed it cell by cell), Old Navy’s women’s plus tops and outerwear chart, and Target’s Ava & Viv chart fragment. Two disclosures. Torrid’s chart page currently blocks visitors behind a bot-verification wall, so Torrid’s numbers come from an Internet Archive capture of Torrid’s own global size chart page from last August, cross-checked against the rows of the live page that Google still indexes, which match. Terra & Sky, as covered above, has no published chart to cite. One comparability note: Lane Bryant and Torrid spec a “low hip” while the others spec the fullest hip, so cross-brand hip comparisons are directional rather than exact. Nothing in the tables above is interpolated, averaged or guessed; where a brand publishes a range, the range is reproduced as printed, typos included. When a brand revises a chart, the numbers here get re-pulled and the date above changes.

The Number That Travels Is the One in Inches

Five stores gave my one body five different names this week. The names are marketing; the tape measurements are mine, and they unlocked every chart in this article without a single guess. So do the ten-minute version of what I did: measure bust, waist and hip, write the three numbers in your notes app under “sizes,” and screenshot the conversion table at the top of this page next to them. Then spend your first calibrated order somewhere cheap and stretchy to confirm the row before you trust it with a $150 coat. And if your two calibration sizes disagree, believe the tape over the tag; the tape has no seasonal margin targets. Universal Standard’s Barely-There slip shorts run $48 and follow the same chart as everything else they cut, which makes them a low-stakes way to test your letter. The link’s right there.