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Day: July 8, 2003

Sizing up the marketplace

July 8, 2003September 2, 2022 Jae-Ha Kim

If you want to know why it takes a woman so long to get dressed, try going shopping with her. Aesthetics aside, women have to deal with sizes that make no sense. Welcome to the wacky world of women’s clothes, where more has become less when it comes to sizes.

6 CommentsIssues, Stylestandardized sizes, vanity sizing, women's clothes

Thin may be in, but there’s a limit to how low ideal weights can go

July 8, 2003June 29, 2021 Jae-Ha Kim

I recently saw a display of vintage mannequins from the turn of the century that shocked me. They were life-size and wearing dresses equivalent to a Size 10 or 12. Fast-forward to a shopping trip to a downtown Chicago department store where the mannequins were roughly the shape of your 12-year-old nephew.

Issues, Stylefashion, size obsession, Thin, weight

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