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2. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   ASTM D6960-04 – Women's Plus sizes (2004) 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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   For very short women with average busts and fairly straight bodies. Size may be denoted as "5JP" or as "5P". Women's petite For larger, shorter women, sometimes with lower bust lines. Sizes are marked the same as women's with a P, as in 20P. Young junior For short women with high busts and fairly straight bodies. Tall sizes

5. Cardigan (sweater) - Wikipedia

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   Coco Chanel is credited with popularizing cardigans for women because "she hated how tight-necked men's sweaters messed up her hair when she pulled them over her head." [ 7 ] The garment is mostly associated with the college culture of the Roaring Twenties and early 1930s, being also popular throughout the 1950s, 1970s, 1990s, 2000s and into ...

6. Knee highs - Wikipedia

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   There were also different types and uses of knee highs for women. [2] Knee highs became popular during the 1960s and 1970s, worn in regular knee high length or top of the knee length so they could be folded over at the top, with the increase in popularity of the mini dress and miniskirt. [citation needed] This style continued throughout the ...

7. Tunic - Wikipedia

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   Soldiers, slaves and manual workers generally had tunics to a little above the knee; those in more sedentary occupations to about the ankle (unless they were expecting to ride a horse, when a shorter one would be worn). [3] Roman worker dressed in a tunic. The tunic or chiton was worn as a shirt or gown by all genders among the ancient Romans.