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 ...

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 ...

Here are some numbers that illustrate the insanity of women’s clothing sizes: A size 8 dress today is nearly the equivalent of a size 16 dress in 1958. And a size 8 dress of 1958 doesn’t even have a ...

Do any of us put any stock in clothing sizes? A woman might wear a size 12 in a pair of pants from a store specializing in office separates, a size medium in a dress from that same retailer, a size ...

It was a squabble that epitomized the complicated and sometimes petty nature of the celebrity fashion world. Actress and "Dancing With the Stars" phenom Kirstie Alley claimed with giddiness that, ...