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12-07-07, 03:26 PM

Womens clothes sizes vary considerably between different manufacturers. They also change over time, with each size getting gradually bigger.
Mrs Wyrdness is around a size 8. She recently bought a dress made from a 1950's pattern and had to get a size 12, as sizes were much smaller then. When she went for a job interview recently, she complained that her size 6 interview suit was feeling a bit tight, but sometimes finds that a size 10 fits better than an 8.
There are proposals to standardise womens clothing based on actual measurements, rather than unstandardised and very variable size numbers.

12-07-07, 03:26 PM	#8
wyrdness Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Am I shrinking, or is everything else getting bigger? Womens clothes sizes vary considerably between different manufacturers. They also change over time, with each size getting gradually bigger. Mrs Wyrdness is around a size 8. She recently bought a dress made from a 1950's pattern and had to get a size 12, as sizes were much smaller then. When she went for a job interview recently, she complained that her size 6 interview suit was feeling a bit tight, but sometimes finds that a size 10 fits better than an 8. There are proposals to standardise womens clothing based on actual measurements, rather than unstandardised and very variable size numbers.