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  2. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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    Examples of body measurements used for the sizing of clothes. Clothing sizes are the sizes with which garments sold off-the-shelf are labeled. Sizing systems vary based on the country and the type of garment, such as dresses, tops, skirts, and trousers.

  3. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The last is typically longer than the foot heel to toe length by 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 ⁄ 3 in or 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 barleycorns, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 barleycorns. A child's size zero is equivalent to 4 inches (a hand = 12 barleycorns = 10.16 cm), and the sizes go up to size 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 (measuring 25 ...

  4. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.

  5. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple size types, designed to fit somewhat different body shapes. Variations include the height of the person's torso (known as back length), whether the bust, waist, and hips are straighter (characteristic of teenagers) or curvier (like many adult women), and whether the bust is higher or lower (characteristic of younger and older women, respectively).

  6. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    Textile fibers, threads, yarns and fabrics are measured in a multiplicity of units.. A fiber, a single filament of natural material, such as cotton, linen or wool, or artificial material such as nylon, polyester, metal or mineral fiber, or human-made cellulosic fibre like viscose, Modal, Lyocell or other rayon fiber is measured in terms of linear mass density, the weight of a given length of ...

  7. Bust/waist/hip measurements - Wikipedia

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    Brassière band size is measured below the breasts, not at the bust. A woman with measurements of 36A–27–38 will have a different presentation than a woman with measurements of 34C–27–38. These women have ribcage circumferences differing by 2 inches, but when breast tissue is included the measurements are the same at 38 inches.

  8. Zara (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Zara was established by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. Their first shop was in central A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, where the company is still based.They initially called it 'Zorba' after the classic 1964 film Zorba the Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away, rearranged the letters to read 'Zara'.

  9. Help:Convert units - Wikipedia

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    Unit type Unit code Unit name Area: a: are: m2: square metre Charge: coulomb: coulomb Energy: J: joule Force: N: newton Length: m: metre Magnetic field strength: T ...