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I posted a question about the pictogram to the
misc.metric-system site and received the following from Markus
Kuhn.
It seems like Irish speed limit conversion, the
metrication of clothing is being done parallel to an actual change in the
clothes themselves to account for the average ranges of people's true
sizes. This is very good in that it may make it harder to "convert" to the
old sizes.
Euric
Does anyone here, who posts from the EU know anything about a new labelling method involving a pictogram and measurements shown in centimetres. This new type of label is suppose to replace the various inconsistent national labels in all EU countries and it was suppose to start appearing this year (2004). The standard may also be known by EN 13402-1 and EN 13402-2. Has anyone seen any new clothes displaying the new label with the pictogram? Does anyone know when it is due to appear if it hasn't yet? I heard about it at the beginning of the year but since then only silence. Here are some websites explaining the pictogram label: http://www.idec.gr/ppe/en/en465.htm http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/bodydim.pdf Post a follow-up to this message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Euric) writes: |> Does anyone here, who posts from the EU know anything about a new |> labelling method involving a pictogram and measurements shown in |> centimetres. This new type of label is suppose to replace the various |> inconsistent national labels in all EU countries and it was suppose to |> start appearing this year (2004). |> |> The standard may also be known by EN 13402-1 and EN 13402-2. There are two more standards EN 13402-3 Measurements and intervals EN 13402-4 Coding system that are still under draft review and have not yet been published. Originally, EN 13402-3 was meant to be published in Spring 2004, but there have been some delays with the various national projects to gather large amount of statistical data on what the current body dimensions of the population are. While Part 1 and 2 are universally applicable, as they refer only to the way the clothes are labelled, part 3 defines in which step sizes clothes should be offered. And picking the right step sizes and ranges will be optimized based on current body measurements, for which thousands of volunteers have to step in underwear into a laser scanner cabin. This project has already been completed, but the EN 13402 committee is still waiting for the final reports of similar studies in other European countries. EN 13402-4 will define a short string of digits that identifies a clothes sizes and can be made, for example, part of a stock-keeping-unit (SKU) or ordering number. |> Has anyone seen any new clothes displaying the new label with the |> pictogram? In Britain, Marks & Spencer has been duallabeling their clothes in in and cm for many years already, though I haven's seen the pictogram yet. I have seen the vendors of professional and specialist clothing (uniforms, diving suits, etc.) using EN 13402-1 dimensions for quite some time. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain |
