With men, sizes are pretty straightforward: Waist and inseam for pants, S/M/L for shirts where exact fitting isn't important. Neck size for dress shirts.
How do women's clothing sizes work? Sizes seem to cover a much greater range.
For women's clothes that are marked S/M/L how do those compare with the numeric system?
2007-12-15 02:49:33 · 6 answers · asked by Sausage Mahoney 5 in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
This is an excellent question!
Here is your answer--and you're not the only one who doesn't know!
In January 1983 when the US Department of Commerce dropped a uniform sizing system for women on the grounds that it no longer reflected the size and shape of the average consumer sizing the sizing of clothing is left up to the manufacturer with out any government guidelines or industry standards.
" With some exceptions, manufacturers are simply making women's clothing larger and labeling them with smaller sizes. As a result, what was a size 8 in the 1950s had become a 4 by the 1970s and 00 today. The size labels just keep getting smaller...."
Since then, there is NO RELIABLE sizing that is consistent.
If you're looking to give a gift of clothing--I suggest a gift certificate to the lady's favorite clothing store.
2007-12-15 03:11:40 · answer #1 · answered by steinbeck11 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
screw that guy thats a bag of bullshit. ITs continually like a length 12 this is (interior the modeling business enterprise) plus sized,a minimum of throw and 18 in there for posterity, cuz somehting htat seems good on a 12 aint gunna seem good on a 22. And yet another project, theres no chuffed medium, the two they are all "motherish" clothing, or they are all skanky ***** clothing that a super woman shouldn't in any respect ever placed on! Or they never in fantastic condition good, plus sized women folk are the main underreprisented interior the clothing industry
2016-10-01 21:17:15 · answer #2 · answered by wrights 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on what shop you shop in, eg a size 10 in Primark is completely different from a Size 10 in Marks and Spencer
2007-12-15 02:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by dixidan_2000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a mystery to men around the world...
2007-12-15 02:56:46 · answer #4 · answered by Duncan B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
small, medium, large.
you kinda just have to know what you are in general
for pants it starts at 00, 0,1, 2, etc.
orr pants can be the waist length.
2007-12-15 02:57:09 · answer #5 · answered by Kira 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a mystery
2007-12-15 02:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by DISTURBIA 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋