Everything Is Relative Unless: The Bizarre Past Of Women’s Dress Sizes

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In the world of women’s wear, a four is a two is a Everything is relative you, undoubtedly and unless’re shopping in Brandy Melville’s ‘teenfriendly’ SoHo store, where only one size is little.

Amid the most infuriating American pastimes occurs within the confines of a dressing room. Let me ask you something. Where do these seemingly arbitrary sizes come from? Sit unbutton your pants, feel fortunate about and in addition down a condensed briefing on women’s dress measurements.

Consumers and the booming catalog market, which proliferated as Americans moved to more rural areas were almost ready for overlook. In a 1939 article titled No Boondoggling, TIME explored the Department of Agriculture’s effort to standardize women’s clothes, an effort that had been inspired under the patronage of the reason that manufacturers guessed it was costing them

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