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A Canterbury clothing label from around the 1970s. Canterbury of New Zealand was established in 1904 by three English immigrants, John Lane, Pringle Walker and Alfred Rudkin. The company began producing garments in Canterbury, New Zealand. Canterbury then began making uniforms for the New Zealand and Australian armies during the First World War.
There is no mandatory clothing size or labeling standard in the US, though a series of voluntary standards have been in place since the 1930s. The US government, however, did attempt to establish a system for women's clothing in 1958 when the National Bureau of Standards published Body Measurements for the Sizing of Women's Patterns and Apparel .
Clothes-size label with EN 13402-1 pictogram and body dimensions in centimeters (found on a high-visibility jacket sold in the United Kingdom). The joint European standard for size labelling of clothes , formally known as the EN 13402 Size designation of clothes , is a European standard for labelling clothes sizes .
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Vanity sizing, or size inflation, is the phenomenon of ready-to-wear clothing of the same nominal size becoming bigger in physical size over time. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This has been documented primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom . [ 4 ]
Template documentation This simple infobox template is intended for use on articles about notable types of clothing, such as a Monmouth cap . For individual items of clothing, use Template:Infobox clothing item .
"A Size 2 Is a Size 2 Is a Size 8: Why clothing sizes make no sense". Slate.com. Reader's Digest Editors (2002). New Complete Guide to Sewing. Reader's Digest. ISBN 978-0-7621-0420-8. {}: |last= has generic name Provides a complete listing of the standard sizes.