why is it so hard to find clothes that fit?

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Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ NEWSLETTER / ESSAYS https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION (ESSAY) written by Mina Le and Am Wyckoff edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ PRODUCTION (SKETCH) written by Helena Riley starring Mina Le & Helena Riley ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: [email protected] ➤ SOURCES https://www.etonline.com/kim-kardashian-says-she-lost-16-lbs-in-3-weeks-to-fit-in-marilyn-monroes-dress-for-met-gala-183408 https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-kardashian-met-gala-2022 Sizing in clothing: Developing effective sizing systems for ready-to-wear clothing edited by S.P. Ashdown (2007) https://americanagefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fashionfrocks30.jpg Fashion Before Plus-Size by Laura Downing Peters (2023) https://time.com/archive/6761421/women-no-boondoggling/ https://archive.org/details/womensmeasuremen454obri/page/25/mode/1up https://slate.com/culture/2012/01/clothing-sizes-getting-bigger-why-our-sizing-system-makes-no-sense.html https://time.com/3532014/women-clothing-sizes-history/ Real Women, Normal Curves, and the Making of the American Fashion Mannequin, 1932–1946 by Alana Staiti (2020) Economics of vanity sizing by Iris Franz Wan-Ju (2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268117300045?via%3Dihub Mass Customization: Perceptions of Related Technologies and Resulting Product by Siming Guo and Cynthia Istook (2017) https://iastatedigitalpress.com/itaa/article/1860/galley/1733/view/ https://www.voguebusiness.com/fashion/extended-sizing-price-dolce-gabbana-11-honore https://www.marketplace.org/story/2022/06/02/stop-charging-more-plus-size-clothing-experts-say https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/sep/15/why-womens-clothing-sizes-dont-measure-up https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/measuring-the-fashion-world https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/style/brandy-melville-hbo-documentary.html https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/retail/what-fashion-cant-seem-to-get-right-about-the-plus-size-market/ https://fashionista.com/2014/01/on-elastic-waistbands-why-mangos-new-plus-size-line-is-disappointing https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/retail/what-fashion-cant-seem-to-get-right-about-the-plus-size-market/ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/plus-size-representation-on-the-runway-starts-at-design-school https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/retail/victorias-secret-abandons-dei-goal-for-focus-on-belonging/ Sized Out: Women, Clothing Size, and Inequality by Katelynn Bishop, Kjerstin Gruys, and Maddie Evans (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243218756010?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.40 https://www.polyesterzine.com/features/fat-anna-wintours-fashion-squeeze-curves-are-in-curvy-girls-are-out https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/body-inclusivity-in-fashion-2025 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a46413899/fat-liberation-trend/ https://time.com/6279423/body-positivity-vs-neutrality/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2w7dp3 https://health.clevelandclinic.org/body-positivity-vs-body-neutrality https://www.poppiescottage.com/single-post/2016/05/05/an-altered-18th-century-dress-lets-explore 0:00 - intro 5:07 - sketch 5:55 - sponsor 6:42 - history of sizing 14:55 - making clothes 28:05 - are we screwed 37:51 - conclusion