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From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Size differences between men and women
Message-ID: <882@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:56:44 EST
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Sizing problems occur in both men's and women's clothes.
There are just too many variables.  The assumption now
seems to be that men are perfectly cilindrical and
women hyperbolic.

If I buy a suit, which goes by jacket size (actually the
chest circumference) to get the jacket to fit, the pants
are often too tight, either at the waist or hips. The latter
seems to be related to whether the European or American
variant on the cilinder are used, i.e. cone or inverted cone
respectively.

For women there seem to be three models, junior, misses,
and women.  The sizes for the first two seems to be a series
ofinterleaved integers, not referring to a particular
body measurement.  Women's sizes apparently use the
cilindrical model.

Perhaps we should go back to the toga, one size fits all.

Herman Silbiger ihnp4!homxb!hrs