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> To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes Why does nobody step up and fix this problem? (See also: clothes for wom

by Shish2k 11y ago

> To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes Why does nobody step up and fix this problem? (See also: clothes for women with useful sized pockets). Given the amount of complaining I see, I would have thought that somebody releasing a range of sensible clothes in women's sizes would instantly dominate the market...

dragonwriter 11y ago
> > To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes > Why does nobody step up and fix this problem? Because its a cross-industry consistency problem [0], so if someone tries to fix it, you've just created yet another set of inconsistent-with-everyone-else sizes. [0] Lying on top of a "reducing a multidimensional issue to a single variable" problem, sitting astride a "trying to avoid making people buying the product associating the negative body image feelings the fashion industry has deliberately manufactured to create the need for certain products with the products themselves by labeling some of the axes of variation in a clear manner" problem. So, you know, layers of issues...