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From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (aMAZon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Size differences between men and women
Message-ID: <2729@ihuxf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 11:37:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:37:35 1985
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> Well, the discussion started out talking about dress shirts (the sort
> you'd wear with a tie).  Those generally come with separately specified
> collar and sleeve sizes.  Let's bring this back to net.women by
> noting how unfair it is that women's clothes use single component
> sizes while men's generally have two component sizes...
> -- 
> scott preece
> gould/csd - urbana
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece

About the only way a woman can now get something that fits exactly
right everywhere is a) to be born a perfect model size or b) have
everything custom-made to fit.  It's amazing how much better someone
can look when she's wearing something made for her proportions.
It's a revelation to have something made after a lifetime of
ready-to-wear.

Furthermore, when buying suits, Marshall Field's (a fairly well-known
store in the Chicago area), male customers would get the alterations
free.  Women had to pay per alteration.  Field's was threatened
with a lawsuit, and now everyone has to pay for everything done.

Has anyone ever made sense of the difference in sizing between
misses, juniors, petites, women?  I mean, it's really odd
when you have sizes 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,40,42,44...
(one wonders what happened to 20-38!)  It would be so much simpler
if we could buy stuff *by measurement*, say, of length and width.
-- 

aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features
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