Visual explanation of the chaos around women's clothing sizes

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Visual explanation of the chaos around women's clothing sizes - Lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61151457 [https://lemmy.ca/post/61151457]

I don’t understand why we can’t just measure the size of the garment and put that on them…

Even men’s sizes which are supposed to be that, have succumbed to vanity sizing. My actual waist measurement is usually about 4" bigger than what’s printed on a pair of pants. But since it’s no longer an actual measurement it varies quite a bit.

There’s international and european standards for this, but nobody follows them en.wikipedia.org/…/Joint_European_standard_for_si…
Joint European standard for size labelling of clothes - Wikipedia

Not even in the countries that created these standards?