Department of Commerce got rid of the uniform sizing system and instead allowed for more ego stroking sizes. In the 1980s, in order to accommodate people’s vanity and ever expanding girth, the U.S.
More directly, it probably partially stems from the fact that women’s sizes today are not at all equivalent to women’s sizes in the 1950s. One possible contributing factor to this myth was Marilyn Monroe’s atypical extreme hour glass shape.
How this myth got started isn’t exactly known. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, at least by today’s sizing systems. She was very big”, you’ll often hear people saying Marilyn Monroe was around the same size as the average American woman today (12-16). That says it all”, to Elizabeth Hurley stating, “I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. From Roseanne Barr stating, “I’m more sexy than Pamela Lee or whoever else they’ve got out there these days.
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