Irritation with clothing manufacturers

[kaylarudbek]

When I am dictator of the world:

1) Women's clothing sizes shall be standardized across all manufacturers. Any manufacturers who refuse to standardize shall lose their incorporation status and all rights to any trademarks and/or copyrights they may have. (Hit them in the payroll and treat them like a beast, since they have no souls...)

2) This goes double and triple for underwear and lingerie manufacturers.

3) There shall be national and international coordination on measuring average human dimensions, so that the sizes will actually fit the average person.

4) There shall also be systematic studies done on what shades of what colors flatter human skin, and the results shall be made freely available to all clothing manufacturers and dye-makers. If the clothing manufacturers go ahead and make clothes that will flatter nobody, they can go ahead and eat the costs themselves.

Comments

[sollers]

Personal gripe:

5) They shall put decent POCKETS in women's clothes. They went out with the pencil skirts of the early 20th century and never really came back in again; I'm fed up with even jogging trousers where, if there are pockets at all, they won't even take a handkerchief and my keys.

As for 1), I'd even appreciate consistency in the same store. I have two tops bought on the same day from the same shop, one allegedly a size larger than the other. The "smaller" one is very loose on me, the "bigger" one is tight. Both were supposed to be slightly loose.

[castiron]

Amen! I'm fortunate to work in an office that has a laid-back dress code, so I can wear the more casual pants & skirts that are more likely to have pockets. (Though even then, good pockets can be hard to find.)

If I can't put my iPod Touch in the pocket without worrying about it falling out, the pocket isn't big enough.

[sollers]

I am fortunate enough to work at home, so if I want to I can wear pyjamas all day. The ones I wear in summer came from the men's department because they look more like a pair of casual trousers and T shirt, bought primarily because I didn't want pink, kittens or teddy bears on me, and as a bonus I found that the trousers came with a patch pocket on the back and two generous side pockets. Big enough for keys as well as iPod!

[kaylarudbek]

Amen to the pockets. Who wants things to fall out of them all the time?

[kk1raven]

Those all sound like good ideas to me. When do you become dictator?

[kaylarudbek]

The plot is to first take over the Patent Office, and then the world!

[kk1raven]

Given the kinds of things that have been getting patents, the Patent Office sounds like a good place to start your reforms.