On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:08, Mike Millet wrote: > This does bring up a question though. Has the US converted metric on the > clothing and just continued to size pants in inches or do we really still > use inches to cut the cloth and such. I know when you make your own clothes > it's always done in yards of fabric and whatnot, but I'm not sure if we all > buy clothes from China that it's not a metric measure :).
I don't know about US clothing factories. I did figure out Brazilian waist size. It appears to be half the size of the pants' waist (not the wearer's waist) in centimeters, e.g. if my waist is 102 cm, I need at least a size 52. Shorts and shirts are labeled P, M, G, EG (S, M, L, XL). EN 13402 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EN_13402) is a European standard for clothing sizes based on body measurement, so if I buy a coat, it's labeled with the same size as the shirt inside it. phma
