&gt; &gt; To this day I can never make sense out of the &quot;sizes&quot; that appear on women&#x27;s clothes<p>&gt; Why does nobody step up and fix this problem?<p>Because its a cross-industry consistency problem [0], so if someone tries to fix it, you&#x27;ve just created <i>yet another</i> set of inconsistent-with-everyone-else sizes.<p>[0] Lying on top of a &quot;reducing a multidimensional issue to a single variable&quot; problem, sitting astride a &quot;trying to avoid making people buying the product associating the negative body image feelings the fashion industry has deliberately manufactured to create the need for certain products with the products themselves by labeling some of the axes of variation in a clear manner&quot; problem. So, you know, layers of issues...