Buying Indian occasionwear from Australia has one recurring failure, and it is almost never about taste. It is that the size label meant something different from what the buyer assumed.
On this site the mapping is stated directly rather than left to be guessed. M is AU 8. L is AU 10. XL is AU 12. XXL is AU 14. Those are the fits offered, and they are the fits the garment was cut to.
What that mapping does not tell you is how much ease the particular garment has. A chinon anarkali and a heavily embroidered kurta in the same nominal size can fit very differently, because the embroidery itself removes give. Surface work — gota, mirror, dense resham — stiffens a panel. A fabric that would have stretched across the shoulder no longer does.
This is the single most useful thing to know when ordering: the heavier the surface work, the less the garment will forgive. Light, unworked fabric is tolerant. A densely embroidered yoke is not.
