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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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I'm not sure it's possible, because the different parts of women's bodies don't tend to scale in relation to one another. There's the waist-to-hip ratio, thigh circumference, breast size, width of shoulders, length of torso, length of legs -- none of which have much to do with each other.
A woman can have size L shoulders, size XS breasts, size S waist, M hips, L thighs, long torso, and short legs. Another might have M shoulders, XL breasts, XXL waist, L hips, and M thighs, short torso, average length legs. And no retailer would bother making garments that account for every possible combination, because that wouldn't be profitable. (This is why so many women with small chests and small ribcages are sold 32A bras that gap on top and ride up in back, when a properly-fitting bra would be a 28C -- companies can make more money by selling less variety.)
Men, for the most part, have more similarities in their shapes and less variety in where excess adipose tissue settles. Also, as someone else pointed out, it's more socially acceptable for men's clothing to fit like a sack.
The solution, unfortunately, is alterations, either by hiring a seamstress or doing it oneself. (No judgment from me: I keep meaning to learn that skill but CBF to get a sewing machine when I might abandon the project.)
I'm a man who is right in the middle between the standard sizes, and it's very hard to find anything that fits. It's either too big or too small. But I've found a place on the web where you enter all your measurements and then they tailor it for you. It's a bit more expensive but the fit is amazing.
I don’t disagree with all the trouble with women sizes, but as a somewhat taller than average man with long arms, whose belly did not grow with torso length, who likes to stand upright with shoulders back, I can tell you, shopping for men’s clothes is not the simple thing you paint it here.
And god forbid those times when I am fit and have muscles. That’s nightmarish for finding clothes.
When men wear clothes like sacks, you can imagine that it’s not because they don’t care, but because they gave up.