 [ Symptoms ] whatever happened to measurements 36 24 36 defining the perfect body [ Disease ] ahhh yes we are back to the size issue it is all a game out there i recently visited the metropolitan museum of modern art and saw the american woman exhibit good grief how the heck did anyone wear those vintage clothes anyway ridiculously small waists kept in check with whale bone girdles we have changed remarkably in the past 50 years we are taller and we now represent a multi racial population with many different body shapes and body fat distributions the brickhouse body you are talking about was closer to the big screen images of the golden age of movie stars who represented 01 of the population out there yet women aspired to those bodies sizing today is a joke one woman could easily wear 3 4 different sizes depending upon which store and designer she chose many clothing companies seem to be downgrading sizes a true size 12 is now marked 10 and by doing so making women feel better about themselves guaranteeing a sale forget standard sizes it is a mish mash just show up and buy what fits