The standard included the first modern women's clothing size charts, and it provides the first data points in the charts above. Women's sizes ranged from 8 to 42. A size 8 woman had a bust of 31 ...

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In 1958, a woman who had a 34-inch bust and a 25-inch waist was considered a size 12. Today ... analyzed the data to produce the commercial standard, they distorted results even further ...

“What’s your size ... us to buy more clothes). Over time this created an arms race, and retailers went to extremes trying to one-up one another. By the late 2000s, standard sizes had ...

The evolution of women’s clothing ... measurements, which was a marketing strategy to appeal to women’s desire to fit into smaller sizes. This phenomenon skewed the understanding of standard ...

the Department of Commerce withdrew its commercial women’s clothing size standard altogether. A private organization called ASTM International began publishing its own sizing tables in 1995.