Where can I find out what body measurements correspond to particular dress sizes, officially? There is an official standard, though of course manufacturers make clothes differently.
Google - M&S came out with a huge body-map survey type thing a few years ago (thinks: when was I temping in Baker St? Erm - must be early 2000). I definitely remember that a lot of news stories at the time ran sidebars with various tables of measurements in. And there are quite a lot of useful "international conversion" tables that have measurements as well as each country's sizing conventions. I had to look them up last week because of coming to the USA intending to buy a dress...
Not "official" official, like guvmint-approved. But there are some industry-wide standards, which a huge bunch of shops/manufacturers agree roughly on, so that is about as close as it gets. M&S definitely do have very rigid internal standards on this one, hence the fuss when they "redefined" a size 14 and so on. Most places are in rough agreement with them, with the notable exceptions of Dorothy Perkins and anyone who charges over £60 for a t-shirt when you'll find that the more you spend the smaller the size you appear to be. I've worn 14s in some designers' clothes (not mine, I hasten to add) when I was an 18 most other places.
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Which department were you in?
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http://www.mapledrive.com/help/usdresssize (http://www.mapledrive.com/help/usdresssize)
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