Sexist Fashion Industry-No Surprise Here

Since clothing sizes are not standardized, there is no point for women buying anything other than XS-XXXL or whatever the range is today.  Even that is not foolproof, especially when buying "women's cut" t-shirts, which are not like men's at all and instead are designed to sexualize women by being form fitting.  Even "extra large" is too small on most women.

One of the big problems is almost all textiles have been "outsourced" to Asian countries, especially China, and China's sizing is not to be trusted at all.

The vast majority of women have NEVER had "hour-glass" figures naturally; only about eight percent of women are said to have the "ideal" figure of a "hour glass" shape.  What gets me is the old "beauty standard" of 36-24-36 is extremely tiny and all but impossible for women over five feet tall to attain, especially the hip measurement.  People don't realize how impossibly tiny that is; women who are that small have no hips at all and have extremely small frames.  The bust size too is extremely small--this is not referring to bra size, either, but the actual circumference over the bust, which translated is probably a size 30 or 32 C or D bra.    Yet the fashion industry wants to pretend the "hour glass" figure is "natural" for women. 

The article is deceptive about the prevalence of the "hour glass shape" women.  Women in the past were heavily corseted.  Even as recently as the 1950s, women were corseted into the fashions to get that "hour glass" silhouette.  Women wore scaled-down versions of the old corsets--"corselettes" is what they were called.

Rectangular and apple-shaped bodies are vastly more common and always were with women.  Designers don't give a shit, however, for having unwearable clothes helps to force women to undergo cosmetic surgery or "dieting" to fit the clothes.  What a goddamned scam the "beauty" industry in all its forms is.

All of it designed for the male gaze.  Men, however, can look as shitty as they want to.