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https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-kardashian-met-gala-2022
Sizing in clothing: Developing effective sizing systems for ready-to-wear clothing edited by S.P. Ashdown (2007)
https://americanagefashion.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fashionfrocks30.jpg
Fashion Before Plus-Size by Laura Downing Peters (2023)
https://time.com/archive/6761421/women-no-boondoggling/
https://archive.org/details/womensmeasuremen454obri/page/25/mode/1up
https://slate.com/culture/2012/01/clothing-sizes-getting-bigger-why-our-sizing-system-makes-no-sense.html
https://time.com/3532014/women-clothing-sizes-history/
Real Women, Normal Curves, and the Making of the American Fashion Mannequin, 1932–1946 by Alana Staiti (2020)
Economics of vanity sizing by Iris Franz Wan-Ju (2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268117300045?via%3Dihub
Mass Customization: Perceptions of Related Technologies and Resulting Product
by Siming Guo and Cynthia Istook (2017) https://iastatedigitalpress.com/itaa/article/1860/galley/1733/view/
https://www.voguebusiness.com/fashion/extended-sizing-price-dolce-gabbana-11-honore
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2022/06/02/stop-charging-more-plus-size-clothing-experts-say
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/sep/15/why-womens-clothing-sizes-dont-measure-up
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/measuring-the-fashion-world
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/style/brandy-melville-hbo-documentary.html
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/retail/what-fashion-cant-seem-to-get-right-about-the-plus-size-market/
https://fashionista.com/2014/01/on-elastic-waistbands-why-mangos-new-plus-size-line-is-disappointing
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/retail/what-fashion-cant-seem-to-get-right-about-the-plus-size-market/
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/plus-size-representation-on-the-runway-starts-at-design-school
https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/retail/victorias-secret-abandons-dei-goal-for-focus-on-belonging/
Sized Out: Women, Clothing Size, and Inequality by Katelynn Bishop, Kjerstin Gruys, and Maddie Evans (2018) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243218756010?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.40
https://www.polyesterzine.com/features/fat-anna-wintours-fashion-squeeze-curves-are-in-curvy-girls-are-out
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/body-inclusivity-in-fashion-2025
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a46413899/fat-liberation-trend/
https://time.com/6279423/body-positivity-vs-neutrality/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2w7dp3
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/body-positivity-vs-body-neutrality
https://www.poppiescottage.com/single-post/2016/05/05/an-altered-18th-century-dress-lets-explore

0:00 - intro
5:07 - sketch
5:55 - sponsor
6:42 - history of sizing
14:55 - making clothes
28:05 - are we screwed
37:51 - conclusion

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