Talk:Clothing sizes

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This is a problematic draft article. It gives the impression that there exists a single standard clothing size in each of the listed countries, and that a simple table is sufficient to convert between these sizes. It is not that easy.

There are lots of other things that need work on this article:

  • it should use tables, not bullet lists
  • it should provide a source for the quoted data
  • it should not simply copy the list of external links from the EN 13402 article, which are mostly not relevant to this article
  • the word "international" in the article title is redundant
  • the use of title case in headings violates the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

I actually don't think that Wikipedia should aim to provide a simple conversion table, as they are all necessarily flawed. What would be helpful would be descriptions of how to convert between body dimensions and particular national sizes, but only with adequate references. Markus Kuhn 09:07, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

It does provide a a good general rule of thump, but yeah... fixing up stuff needed by "somebody". Mathmo Talk 06:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, iv corrected the information in this article. It now fits with the generally agreed standards that i could find on fashion websites. Iv also made it very clear that this is a rough guide only in the opening section. 82.3.151.246 14:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Men's shoe sizes not correct

I'm no expert here, but I do know that English size 8 is size 42 in continental Europe. This table can't be right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pawebster (talk • contribs) 06:30, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Women's clothing sizes

I've noticed that a UK size 4 is a US size 2, yet on the size zero page it says that a UK size 4 is a US size 0. That doesn't seem right.. well, to me at least. Is it supposed to be that way or..?

A UK size 4 is actually more like a US size 00 in terms of measurements. The measurement for a UK size 4 are roughly 30-23-32, I cannot believe the US could have 1-2 sizes smaller than those measurements. Size 4 is the UK's smallest size, in fact it's very hard to find. You can find plenty of US size 0's and 2's, so a UK size 4 has to be more like a US size 00. It's just common sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dee26 (talk • contribs) 00:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Women's clothing sizes

A couple of month's ago, it was on the news that all European sizes became one size bigger (ie. 36 became 34, 40 became 38 etc) so a European 34 is now a USA size 0. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.116.1.128 (talk) 08:55, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Men size - Europe vs. UK/US

So far I've only seen meseurments in numbers. However (most) stores operates with S, M, L, XL and so forth, even in Europe. Is this kind of marking the same messurments in both Europe, UK and US? --84.202.208.245 (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2008 (UTC)