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2. Joint European standard for size labelling of clothes - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   The B fitting adds 12 cm and the T height modifier 4 cm to the base hip measurement 89 + 16 = 105 cm. [13] Additionally there are a set of age based waist adjustments, such that a dress marketed at someone in their 60s may allow for a waist 9 cm larger than a dress, of the same size, marketed at someone in their 20s. The age based adjustments ...

4. Waist (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   From the early 19th century through the Edwardian period, the word waist was a term common in the United States for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt.A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt; i.e., of shirting fabric with turnover collar and cuffs and a front button closure.

5. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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   Men's standard sizes were probably developed first during the American Revolutionary War, and they were in regular use by the American army during the War of 1812 for ready-made uniforms. [1] These were based on the chest measurement, with other measurements being assumed to be either proportional (the circumference of the neck, waist, hips ...

6. Why shirts bunch up in the back & an easy way to fix it - AOL

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   Women's dress shirts are generally cut and/or seamed to follow the natural curves of the body, i.e. full at the bust and hip, whittled down at the waist. Where the dress shirt has been slimmed for ...

7. Formal trousers - Wikipedia

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   Formal trousers were originally introduced in the first half of the 19th century as a complement to the then widely worn frock coat.As established formal day attire trousers, they were subsequently introduced to go with the morning dress, which in turn gradually replaced the frock coat as formal day attire standard by 20th century, along with its semi-formal equivalent black lounge suit.