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2. Vanity sizing - Wikipedia

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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 ]

3. Reviewers Dish on Cocktail Dresses They Love for Women Over 50

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   Cocktail dresses for women over 50 bring style, comfort, and sex appeal. We found the best party dresses that are affordable, stylish, and come in many sizes.

4. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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   U.S. standard clothing sizes for women were originally developed from statistical data in the 1940s and 1950s. At that time, they were similar in concept to the EN 13402 European clothing size standard, although individual manufacturers have always deviated from them, sometimes significantly.

6. Plus-size clothing - Wikipedia

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   Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...

7. Women's oversized fashion in the United States since the 1920s

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   The 1930s started in depression and ended with the onset of World War II.With rising unemployment and despair, no industry was left unaffected. In the fashion industry, designers cut their prices and produced new lines of ready-to-wear clothes, along with clothing made of more economical and washable fabrics, such as rayon and nylon. [5]

8. Biltmore Fashion Park - Wikipedia

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   Biltmore Fashion Park; Location: Phoenix, Arizona: Coordinates: 1]: Address: 24th Street & Camelback Rd: Opening date: 1963: Management: RED Development: Owner: RED Development: Architect: Welton Becket, Charles Luckman: No. of stores and services: 55+: No. of anchor tenants: 2: Total retail floor area: 611,000 sq ft (56,800 m 2): No. of floors: 1 (2 in Saks Fifth Avenue, Forever XXI, and ...

9. Clothing terminology - Wikipedia

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   Clothing terminology comprises the names of individual garments and classes of garments, as well as the specialized vocabularies of the trades that have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold clothing over hundreds of years. Clothing terminology ranges from the arcane (watchet, [1] a pale blue color name from the 16th century), and changes ...