(ANSAmed) – MADRID, FEBRUARY 8 – Goodbye sizes for women’s clothes in Spain, where from now on women will be classified on the basis of three morphological types: ‘Cylinder’, ‘Diabolo’ (from the dexterity game which uses a tool made of two half spheres) and ‘Bell’, according to the measurements of the chest, waist and hips. The Health Ministry recommended to the producers to give up the traditional sizes and use a system which takes into account these three anthropometric parameters, as well as the height. From a study which lasted several months on more than 10,000 women, it emerged that, even though 86% of them have a normal weight, 40% find it hard to find suitable clothes on the basis of the current numeric sizes (40, 42 and so on), set at the beginning of the ’70s, under the regime of Franco. According to the research, the three identified morphological types are ‘cylinder’, which prevails among teenage girls, where the three measurements (chest, waist and hips) are equal; ‘diabolo’, which prevails among younger women, where chest and hips are equal and the waist is smaller. As years progress, women move on to the ‘bell’ shape, with equal chest and waist and larger hips. (ANSAmed).

2008-02-08 11:26

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If EN13402 had been introduced a few years back, then Spain would not be a in position now to take matters into its own hands as a means to control the confusion stemming from vanity sizing.

The longer the delays into implementing the standard, the greater the chance others will follow Spain’s lead.