where I easily slid into a size 34 pair of the brand's Dress Pant. Where no other 34s had been hospitable, Old Navy's fit snugly. The final measurement? Five inches larger than the label.

The standard included the first modern women's clothing size charts, and it provides the first data points in the charts above. Women's sizes ranged from 8 to 42. A size 8 woman had a bust of 31 ...

Though size charts have to be taken with a grain of salt since ... but also give you other metrics your body measurements do not. For pants, this is the inseam, outseam, thighs, front and back rise, ...

Max Galka, a writer from New York, has created two handy graphs showing just what clothing sizes women have worn based on their waist and bust sizes since 1958 – and it seems that by today’s ...

Today, a size ... adding the measurements of women who had served in the Army during World War II — likely among the most fit women in the population. Between then and now, clothing brands ...