IIRC it all falls back to a time when men’s and women’s clothes were made and tailored by totally different groups of people, each of which established their own conventions and measurements, and nobody’s been smart enough to change it to make sense in the last 2 centuries.
IIRC it all falls back to a time when men’s and women’s clothes were made and tailored by totally different groups of people, each of which established their own conventions and measurements, and nobody’s been smart enough to change it to make sense in the last 2 centuries.
This is a fun one; source? Who were these 2 groups?
Oooh, now I’m curious which one it is that makes sense!