Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxf!features 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2729 Posted: Mon Oct 28 11:37:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:15:27 EST References: <4472@alice.UUCP> <4500041@ccvaxa> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 > 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 *open to possibilities*