Why women’s clothing sizes don’t make sense
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Women's clothing sizes are very inconsistent. So no, it's not you. Vox explains the women’s clothing industry.
In 1939, the US government funded statisticians to collect the weight and 58 measurements of 15,000 women. Why were the results of this study not an accurate representation of women?
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