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L9 - Women's clothing - Apparel Manufacturers Association of NSW - 1959-1970; AS1344-1972, 1975, 1997 Size coding scheme for women's clothing; AS1182 - 1980 - Size coding scheme for infants and children's clothing
(A longer unit of about 25 cloth shaku was the tan.) [14] Traditional Japanese clothing was reckoned using the "traditional clothing" shaku (呉服尺, gofukujaku), about 1 ⁄ 5 longer than the carpentry shaku. The Shōsōin in Nara has ivory 1-shaku rulers, the kōgebachiru-no-shaku (紅牙撥鏤尺). [citation needed]
The Japanese and South Korean clothing size standards give codes to women's clothing designed for different ratios between hips and chest. The German standards similarly use hip and bust measures. They all adapt for a linear scale between rectangular and spoon shapes.
It's not uncommon for Japanese stores to use unconventional sizing labels. A writer for Rocket News says "LA" is an abbreviation for "large athletic" on some clothes and is supposed to fit people ...
Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku), which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
A Japanese woman tying the obi of a geisha in the 1890s. In its early days, the obi was a cord or ribbon-like sash, approximately 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in width. Men's and women's obi were similar. At the beginning of the 17th century, both women and men wore a thin, ribbon-like obi.