For now Europe. It's function is to harmonise the various national clothing sizes into one standard. It isn't even based on the old sizing system, but relies on a pictogram showing different body measurements (in centimetres).
According to the clothing industry, 50 % of clothes are returned because they don't fit. The cost and confusion of the present sizing systems is contributing to this huge financial loss to the clothing industry. To rectify it a new sizing system was proposed a few years ago. A system that is suppose to show measurements that are more true to the different body shapes. The important thing is it is based entirely on metric measurements. http://www.centexbel.be/Fr/standardisation_NF_en_340.htm http://www.marexim.cz/marexim_cz/INFORMACE/en_340.htm Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Darfus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2004-03-07 11:46 Subject: [USMA:29085] Re: new clothing size standards > Haven't heard anything about it. Is this supposed to happen in the U.S. or > Europe? My parents just got back from Las Vegas and my dad said he saw > conversion charts above the clothing racks at some places they shopped. I > thought maybe that was for foreigners to figure out their size in FFU. > > jd > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 11:37, Chimpsarecute wrote: > > The clothing standard falls under the European Standard EN340. > > On Sunday 07 March 2004 11:04, Chimpsarecute wrote: > > Has anyone heard anything more on the new sizing standards for clothing > > that goes into effect this year? > > > > Is anyone preparing for it? Or is this a plan that is being postponed and > > will never go into effect? > > > > Euric > >
