Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxb!hrs 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 Article-I.D.: homxb.882 Posted: Mon Oct 28 16:56:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:22:25 EST References: <4472@alice.UUCP> <4500041@ccvaxa>, <2729@ihuxf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 22 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