Now I both understand and don't understand...

[orangerful]

If you've ever been in an American clothing stores, staring at the pants sizes, wondering WHY GOD WHY ARE THEY ALL THE SAME SIZE YET ALL DIFFERENT - turns out it was the Department of Agriculture's fault

Here's Why Clothing Sizes are the way they are

*sigh* I wish they could just go to actual inches, save everyone the hassle and humiliation of trying on 5 different pairs of the same pants to figure out a companies sizing for that season in that fabric on that day.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

It's certainly a very expensive problem for online retailers. I always check the sizing guides but they are often very limited or just plain off, especially when you get into larger sizes because body differences just become more extreme in that case.