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I really want a law that requires clothing sizes to include actual measurements. And it's insane that I would have to specify that these measurements must be accurate, but the clothing industry has made lying about sizes the norm.
There shouldn't be anything preventing me from figuring out women's bra sizes with a tape measure aside from the fact that I don't know them and they probably don't want a stranger obsessively measuring their boobs.
I really want a law that requires clothing sizes to include actual measurements.
Men's pants are sized based on the number of inches around the waist and the inseam. The inseam is stupid because it ignores the height from the waist to the crotch so relaxed fitting jeans will have a shorter inseam than a regular fit. I'm sure it is because it was standardized when higher waisted jeans and overalls and that kind of stuff was popular.
But it doesn't matter any more because the waist sizes can be off by a few inches anyway. It was literal, then became kind of close. Not as bad as women's clothing, but it is brand specific depending on how hard they lean into vanity sizing.
Yet another reason why I don't wear pants.
waist sizes matter less because theres at least a commonly used bandaid fix for it, a belt.
Unless they are tighter than expected, especially when they shrink.
of course, hence when given the option, always buy the waist oversized rather than perfectly matching. because youll never know if it decreases.
I'm gay, so current age I guess
Just now
Grade 9- girlfriend at the time was "blessed" so to speak. Learned e women have a much more difficult time finding bras and underwear that "work" than most men do.
I think this is filed in my head under "no two manufacturers' sizes are the same (even if they're supposed to be to a standard)", and "this is especially true of women's wear", so while I may have known about bra cup sizes specifically at some point in the past, I'm not sure I did at the time I arrived at this post, and yet am thoroughly unsurprised to (re)discover it.
Well I don't wear underwear at all already 😀
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My understanding is that some European countries have laws standardizing bra size.
I always figured it was like pants where a 34 waist from company A wouldn't fit like one from B.
Teenager. I'm an artist. I was drawing some characters. Had to find some references.
It is well standardized around here.
This old.
Probably around 14 or something. For whatever reason, people will often name DD as a large bra size around here. It also doesn't exist in our bra size system. Some girl pointed out that non-sense at school.
Europe, my beloved...
The same time I learned it was like that for all women's clothing. So about 18
This might go some ways to explaining why I've never known a woman who liked buying or wearing bras. I'm comfortable blaming the patriarchy, which can absolutely get fucked.
However old i was when I first heard my mom complain about bra's
I'm sad I missed the days of girls wearing no bras. Must have been nice.
You don't live in Australia then.
Wut
No clothes shit in my country is standard so why would the bra's be?
@ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling I don't remember exactly, but I was well into adulthood.
Oh hey, a Mastodon user! Nice to see ya
@ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling I follow a bunch of Lemmy communities; I love how we can all interact together from our individual corners of the #Fediverse.
