{"id":35616,"date":"2011-04-28T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35616"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:19:48","slug":"variations-in-size-and-proportions-across-u-s-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/28\/variations-in-size-and-proportions-across-u-s-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"Variations in Size and Proportions Across U.S. Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In one store, you\u2019re a Size 4, in another a Size 8, and in another a Size 10 \u2014 all without gaining an ounce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So starts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/25\/business\/25sizing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times <\/em>article<\/a>, forwarded along by\u00a0Kristin, Valerie, and Dolores. \u00a0It features this handy graphic illustrating just how much both sizes and proportions vary from store to store:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/147.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35617\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/147.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/147.jpg 649w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/147-374x500.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that this article is specific to women, as if the sizes and proportions in men&#8217;s clothes don&#8217;t vary. Hint: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/06\/vanity-sizing\/\">they do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one store, you\u2019re a Size 4, in another a Size 8, and in another a Size 10 \u2014 all without gaining an ounce. So starts a New York Times article, forwarded along by\u00a0Kristin, Valerie, and Dolores. \u00a0It features this handy graphic illustrating just how much both sizes and proportions vary from store to store: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,225,55,2103],"class_list":["post-35616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35616"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58896,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35616\/revisions\/58896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}