Pat Naughtin wrote on 2002-10-13 04:46 UTC: > As another example, you might like to consider a range of women's wear made > for a market in Bangkok in Thailand. As Thai women tend to be quite small it > would not be feasible to buy a whole series of garments from Thailand and > transport them (say) to a market in Iowa.
Which is exactly the reason, why the new European Standard Clothes Sizes Desigations offer the use a a two-dimensional size system, with a primary size and a secondary size. American cusomers are already well familiar with two-dimensional sizes from bras and jeans sizes. Markus P.S.: Related to the previous dollar bill/coin discussion: The Greek government is pleading to the European Central bank to introduce a one and two eurobill quickly, because it seems deeply rooted in Greek culture that accepting change in coin is seen by the public as greedy, which was no problem as long as the greeks had only coins of ridiculously small value. http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0%2c2044%2cOID1188494%2c00.html (Ask for translation via http://babelfish.altavista.com/ if you can read the *very* bad SYSTAN English better than German.) -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
