Listener Caren Johannes of Westminster, Colorado, emailed this question to Marketplace: “I’ve always wondered how clothing manufacturers figure out what sizes of clothes to make. I’m very short and I ...

When it comes to women's clothing sizes, there's some funny math going on. The average American woman is about 25 pounds heavier than she was in 1960. Yet women's plus-size clothing, generally defined ...

If anybody is clued in to the weirdness of women’s apparel sizing, it’s Monica Kitt, a Los Angeles stylist whose job it is to outfit people who appear on a television makeover show. “Every day I deal ...

It was a squabble that epitomized the complicated and sometimes petty nature of the celebrity fashion world. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...