I was watching an “I Love Lucy” rerun recently and was shocked to hear Lucy say she wore a size 12. She had an itty-bitty waist, she couldn’t possibly fill out a size 12! As it turns out, dressmakers have been playing up to women’s egos for years by labeling clothes with increasingly smaller sizes.
Women have statistically grown larger over the years, but designers are kissing up to women by creating “extra, extra small” and “00” sizes.… Read More: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vanity-sizing-00-is-the-new-8/