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Okay, I'll admit, this blog doesn't have much to do with Star Wars or muffins. It's mostly to do with a college student with some time to kill putting her ramblings and observations on the internet. Plus my roommates need a break from hearing me complain about sexist commercials and reality tv shows. A little bit of both, really.
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Why I love Spain, part 58,284,927Broadsheet over at Salon has a nice little story about attempts to standardize women's clothing sizes in Spain, so that more diverse and natural body types will have an easier time finding clothes that fit nicely. I've long wondered why women aren't afforded the courtesy of height-width measurements instead of meaningless numbers while shopping for pants. This study proposes bust, waist, and hip measurements for tops as well. On top of that, the article says that several retailers have agreed to only use mannequins in size 38 (eight to us) or up. Wow, now that is real progress. It reminds me of how much more I liked shopping for shoes in Spain: here, the display shoe is always a ridiculously small five or six, but in Spain display shoes were almost always my size (European 38, American 7-7.5). I loved this because then I didn't have to work up my courage to ask a snotty Sevillana for help finding my size. The one thing I'm concerned about, though, is the sheer amount of different sizes that would be necessary if they go to a bust-waist-hips measurement system. I feel like if this happened in America, they would compensate for the ridiculous array of exacting sizes by only stocking the smallest ones. Either way, I'm interested to see how this will work out. 16:14
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