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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.
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. The guidelines were made a commercial standard and were even updated in 1970.
There are multiple size types, designed to fit somewhat different body shapes. Variations include the height of the person's torso (known as back length), whether the bust, waist, and hips are straighter (characteristic of teenagers) or curvier (like many adult women), and whether the bust is higher or lower (characteristic of younger and older women, respectively).
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These sizes definitely seem to be wrong in the conversion from US sizes to UK/EU. For example the page lists UK sizes as being the US size plus six, so a USA 2 is a UK 8 and a USA 4 is a UK 10. Whereas, the conversion charts for Overstock.com and ebay.com both list the UK size as being only two greater than the US size.
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The use of US standard clothing sizes by manufacturers as the official guidelines for clothing sizes was abandoned in 1983. [5] [6] In the United States, although clothing size standards exist (i.e., ASTM), most companies do not use them any longer. [2] Size inconsistency has existed since at least 1937.
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