{"id":127500,"date":"2015-08-12T04:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/vanity-sizing.html"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:16:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T00:16:52","slug":"vanity-sizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/vanity-sizing.html","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Sizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently size doesn&#39;t matter, when it comes to women&#39;s clothing. Or, rather, it matters so much, it&#39;s become a meaningless number. You don&#39;t need to diet to get to a smaller size &#8212; the size will catch up with you sooner or later &#8212; probably sooner, if you select the right clothing manufacturer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/08\/11\/the-absurdity-of-womens-clothing-sizes-in-one-chart'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4aVBU0Bwt3nihmq8FjZl0mW2pEC7jIUGtc23RrhsOG-L3FbjGo8Xf0ANFg8w8ySlJaz6fFSR9mJBRaWvSQCgbtVZs-pqzOlTfBV2kxxyQEhCFawLhxHYcxRz-8R2jdwu4d3Oj7q9Az2FOTabCC1m74ah--KxNE-SR-l4kFelq3EQJVNwpmwZgoUDfu3YSVo=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/08\/11\/the-absurdity-of-womens-clothing-sizes-in-one-chart'>The absurdity of women&rsquo;s clothing sizes, in one chart<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s size 8 is yesterday&#8217;s size 16\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fvDo59oT8dT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently size doesn&#39;t matter, when it comes to women&#39;s clothing. Or, rather, it matters so much, it&#39;s become a meaningless number. You don&#39;t need to diet to get to a smaller size &#8212; the size will catch up with you sooner or later &#8212; probably sooner, if you select the right clothing manufacturer. The absurdity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/vanity-sizing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vanity Sizing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,712,348,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-clothing-and-fashion","category-women","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25849,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/they-put-on-womens-clothing.html","url_meta":{"origin":127500,"position":0},"title":"&quot;They put on women&#39;s clothing &#8230;&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Jan-12 5:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the the long and tormented history of women's clothing sizes. 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