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The craziness of women's clothing sizes (pudding.cool)

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[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

My read was that waist size is the issue because the manufacturers have made it the issue. The idea you can derive the other dimensions as a function of waist size is clearly an assumption that has a limited range of validity, and there hasn't been a broader effort to come up with something better.