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Re: New request: Looking for freeware to determine women's dress size

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From: Franklin
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:38
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coco wrote: 

> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:55:10 -0800, mike wrote: 
> 
>>> At any rate, Wikipedia has a table: 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size 
>>> 
>> Guess there are no women over 5'6".  Bummer. 
> 
> All I want to know is are they not fat. 
> 
> It is interesting on the wikipedia charts that no women are over 5'6" 
> (which is ok for me as I'm only 5'9). 
> 
> On the charts, I'm surprised the "bust" has anything to do with the
> dress size since boobs vary irespective of the belly (and the ones with
> belly fat are those I'm trying to avoid talking to). 
> 
> Also "back-waist length" seems uninteresting as long as I know the
> height. 
> 
> So waist and hip are all that matter (by way of example, my Levis are 
> 34x32). 
> 
> Analyzing the charts, a "6" has a 37 inch waist which is larger than
> mine so I can agree with what someone said that anything under 6 is ok. 
> 
> This is kind of shocking because most of the women on Craigslist seem to 
> say they are a 10 or 12 (one said she was a 20!) - all of which are 
> positively obese based on these charts. 
> 
> Given my hips are 34 inches, and assuming my selection criteria is I
> want the woman to be "smaller" than I am, the only size that has hips
> smaller than me is a "2". But I agree that isn't going to work. 
> 
> It looks like I'll have to compromise a bit as someone noted to accept 
> anyone with a 2,4,6 (maybe asian girls) and ignore anything with two
> digits in it. 
> 
> My hips = 34 inches Size 2 = 34 inches (avg) Size 6 = 37.5 inch hips 
> Size 10 = 39.5 inch hips Size 12 = 41 inch hips 
> 
> Still, rather than go on pure numbers, it would be nice if there was a 
> program that drew out their silouette or had in its database known women
> to compare sizes to to get a more accurate feeling for how the woman
> looks without a tape measure on her. 

Hello Coco, that sounds like a really wonderful project.  What puzzles me 
is why your Aioe logon was used to make a Linda Galdieri posting on 
Saturday.

OK, I know.  You must be good friends and use the same pc.  How nice.


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