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BS 6185:1982 Specification for size designation of men's wear; BS 3666:1982, the standard for women's clothing, is rarely followed by manufacturers as it defines ...
In 1958, the National Bureau of Standards invented a new sizing system, based on the hourglass figure and using only the bust size to create an arbitrary standard of sizes ranging from 8 to 38, with an indication for height (short, regular, and tall) and lower-body girth (plus or minus). The resulting commercial standard was not widely popular ...
European Standard (EN 13402-1) pictogram example for a men's jacket, with chest as primary measurement, and height and waist as secondary measurements. The first part [2] of the standard defines the list of body dimensions to be used for designating clothing sizes, together with an anatomical explanations and measurement guidelines. All body ...
In human body measurement, these three sizes are the circumferences of the bust, waist and hips; usually rendered as xx–yy–zz in inches, or centimeters. The three sizes are used mostly in fashion , and almost exclusively in reference to women, [ 1 ] who, compared to men, are more likely to have a narrow waist relative to their hips.
As Lionel Messi soared to the top of global soccer, and established himself as the greatest player the sport has ever seen, a noisy minority of skeptics, most of them British, would pose a silly ...
The ancient Indian sexual treatise Kama Sutra, originally written in Sanskrit, probably between the second and fourth centuries AD, divides men into three classes based on penis size: "hare" size (about 5–7 cm, or 2–3 inches, when erect), "bull" size (10–15 cm, or 4–6 inches), and "horse" size (18–20 cm, or 7–8 inches). [67]
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 ]
try to align sizes with ISO 19407, remove US athletic and asian: 17:06, 21 February 2013: 999 × 319 (94 KB) Marcgal: seems to be valid now: 23:03, 2 November 2009: No thumbnail: 0 × 0 (46 KB) Cfaerber {{Information | description = {{en|Chart comparing different shoe sizing systems for adults.