All clothes are presented in metric sizes on the shelves in the stores, but
they will often have imperial labels internally. I have heard that the
clothing industry here in Australia is tardy on this. All tape measures in
clothing stores however are in centimetres only. (You can purchase in
hardware stores dual inch and metric, but no inch only tape measures
anywhere) As I am from the Building Industry I work only in millimetres,
but do not converse to others outside the building industry in millimetres,
but instead in centimetres.
In other areas, we no longer talk in pounds for our weight, i.e., stones (14
lbs = 1 stone) and talk only in kgs. I can say I am 82 kgs to anyone and
they will understand. We only talk in �C, and have left �F far behind. I
can talk to any one here in metric temperature and they will understand.
But height seems one of those things that some people like to speak
colloquially in inches, I will say that I am 175cm to some people and 5'9"
to others.
When I purchased my Levi Jeans the paper label attached was 86cm waist and
76 cm leg, however the leather tag on the jeans is in inches. For example my
Levi (r) jeans (made in Fiji) bought here in Australia (AU) have a W of 34"
and L of 30".
A pair of Reserve (r) pants (made in china) purchased in AU, has an internal
tag 32/82S ('S' being for short, I am 175cm or 5'9")
A pair of Savane (r) pants (made in Fiji) purchased in AU, are only in
centimetres W87/L84.
A pair of Arch Classics (r) suite pants (made in Fiji) purchased in AU, has
a internal tag Jacket 40R and Trouser 34R (I have no idea what 'R' refers
to)
A Van Heusen (r) long sleeve shirt (made in Thailand) purchased in AU is
internally labelled only at 41cm. However, other shirts I looked at in my
wardrobe were just labelled M or L, for medium or large.
Brenton
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On Behalf Of
Mike Joy
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 9:05 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:22639] Fw: Re: Voluntary metrication
I was referring to clothes sizes in my posting below.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 7:14 AM
Subject: [USMA:22637] Re: Voluntary metrication
| 2002-10-12 07:14
| John
| We have been using cm for nearly 30 years now.
|
| Pat will have an exact date when inches was dropped.
|
| Regards
|
| Mike
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:40 AM
| Subject: Re: [USMA:22611] Voluntary metrication
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|
| | 2002-10-10
| |
| | Mike,
| |
| | What clothes sizing system is used in Australia? Do you use a metric
| based
| | system or is it still inch based? Do you see Australia adopting this
new
| | standard?
| |
| | John
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| | ----- Original Message -----
| | From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| | To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| | Sent: Thursday, 2002-10-10 19:52
| | Subject: [USMA:22611] Voluntary metrication
| |
| |
| | > On 2002-10-07, Markus wrote:
| | >
| | > > that an employee of Marks & Spencer (Jerry Dunleavy) was one of the
| | > driving forces behind getting many large European clothes retailer
| | > chains to work together on the new measurement-based metric labeling
| | > standard.
| | > *********
| | >
| | > Now, wouldn't it be great if there was a US equivalent of Jerry
| Dunleavy?
| | > This is what we need, and thereby avoiding the need to have a major
| | > disaster to force change.
| | >
| | > I know that the NIST and USMA guys are doing a tremendous job, but
they
| | are
| | > swimming in treacle.
| | >
| | > If anyone knows of a US equivalent of JD then let's have his name and
| | > address, so we can all give him a tremendous BOOST!
| | >
| | > This would counteract our enemy no.1 (Rupert Murdoch) who is doing so
| much
| | > to prevent his papers and media in the US from using SI units.
| | >
| | > Best regards
| | >
| | > Mike Joy
| | > Perth, Australia
| | >
| | >
| | >
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