Why do women’s clothes only have even-numbered sizes?
Question
Why do women’s clothes only have even-numbered sizes? 8, 10, 12 etc. Why isn’t there a size 9 or 11?David, Edmonton
Answer
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Name: Harold, Upper Norwood
Qualification: My family had 80 shops
Answer: They didn’t always go up in twos – some did odd sizes. They used to use letters. Dresses used to be hip sizes in numbers. In the seventies, the sizes were standardised by a trade body, the BSI. It’s even numbers as when you cut cloth, you can standardise the measurements. It could have been odd numbers, but it was just decided that it was even numbers.
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