There is no standard measurement for sizing women's clothing. Women struggle to find the right sizes of all types of clothing to fit them. Each manufacturer has different sizing methods. A man can walk into a store and buy a pair of pants that are 32" waist and 29" long and that is what he gets. A woman that is 34" around the rib cage must try on several sizes of bras and with some manufacturers will take a size 40 bra. One woman can take up to 4 different sizes in pants depending on the brand and some brands vary in their own sizes as well.
Women spend much more money on clothing than men, yet go through much more difficulty, waste of time and resources trying to find clothing that fits. Contrary to manufacturers beliefs we don't want vanity sizing, we want clothing that states its actual size so that it will fit well.
We demand that the ASTM and clothing manufacturers standardize sizes for women according to inches, not some random number that a manufacturer comes up with.
