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I don't see the point in doing men's vs women's clothing sizes. Surely there's a big enough variance in size and shape between individuals that it would be more useful to size based off of measurements of body shape?

Take shoes for example. Why is a uk men's size 10 so wildly different from a UK women's size 10?

All it seems to achieve is making shopping for clothes difficult for anyone that doesn't fit into the expected body shape for their gender and make it hard to find well fitting clothes outside of specialist shops.

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[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even if the length is the same, men's shoes tend to be wider than women's (sometimes much wider). So swapping is great if you're a woman with wide feet, but if you're a man with wide or even average feet, it would be much harder to swap to a woman's shoe.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

womens comes in a narrow and wide versions. if you need wide, wouldnt the wide versions of either work? im right down the middle and never had an issue with width in mens or womens.

Not quite. I was shopping for running shoes a while back and learned that generally, a women's wide is the same width as a men's standard. I think a women's standard is usually called a B width, and the women's wide and men's standard would be a D width. Some brands do make other slight differences between the men's shoe and the women's shoe, so the swap might not always be 1 to 1, and some brands do unisex sizing, so there's no difference in width for men's vs. women's.

[–] DrainKikoLake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

In my experience a women's wide is akin to a men's regular.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

OK I didn't know that.