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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 standard is based on body dimensions measured in centimetres , and as such, and its aim is to make it easier for people to find clothes in sizes that fit them.
Clothing brands and manufacturers size their products according to their preferences. [12] For example, the dimensions of two size 10 dresses from different companies, or even from the same company, may have grossly different dimensions; and both are almost certainly larger than the size 10 dimensions described in the US standard .
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. The John Lewis website in the UK lists UK sizes as being 4 greater than the US equivalent.
The letter codes, added with this edit, seem strange from a systematic PoV: from XXS through L for both, male and female, size designations a step of 8 cm is used, thereafter it gets inconsistent, although 12 cm seems to be a common step size.
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 ]
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.
During that time, Mauritius had the labour capacity, and Mauritian women preferred working in the factory instead of working on the sugar plantations due to the lower working hours (8 hours in factory instead of 12 hours on the sugar plantation) and the higher pay (3-5 rupees per day in factory work instead of 2-2.5 rupees per day on sugar ...
It is the 170th largest nation in the world by size. The Republic of Mauritius comprises Mauritius Island and several outlying islands. The nation's exclusive economic zone covers about 2.3 million km 2 (890,000 sq mi) of the Indian Ocean, including approximately 400,000 km 2 (150,000 sq mi) jointly managed with the Seychelles. [111] [112] [113]