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 ...

Amanda Sakuma, a freelance journalist writing for The Pudding, discusses the chaotic and inconsistent ways brands come up with women’s clothing sizes.

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 ...

But for the rest of us folks, the question may be even more basic: What IS a 6, and what IS a 14? As any woman who tries on clothes frequently can attest, a 6 in one place can indeed be a 14 somewhere ...