The standard included the first modern women's clothing size charts, and it provides the first data points in the charts above. Women's sizes ranged from 8 to 42. A size 8 woman had a bust of 31 ...

In 1958, a woman who had a 34-inch bust and a 25-inch waist was considered a size 12 ... among the most fit women in the population. Between then and now, clothing brands have either decided ...

Shopping for clothes that actually fit is downright agonizing—especially for women, when a size 8 varies so ridiculously across clothing brands ... published size charts, then shows you the ...

American women are on average between a misses ... in a reliable scientific manner. Also, every clothing company has its own sizing chart and we recognize that we are making a generalization ...

I think it’s done because the women are getting bigger, and we’re just addressing that. The original sizing charts never had sizes 0 and 2. Now we select sizes 0 and 2 because the sizes are ...

In the world of women’s clothing, a 4 is a 2 is a 6. Everything is relative — unless, of course, you’re shopping in Brandy Melville’s teen-“friendly” SoHo store, where the only size is ...

The sign was labeled as a “suggested women’s sizing chart,” and laid out the different heights and weights associated with clothing sizes. Each size also included an adjective used to ...