Size 12 is not fat, Size 14 is not fat, either (both are the titles of Meg Cabot's novels)

Size 12 is not fat, Size 14 is not fat, either (both are the titles of Meg Cabot's novels)

Taken from here. Well, now if they could also lower the price of Mango, that would be cool :D.

Spain resizes clothes for women

Spain is to change its clothing sizes for women. This is part of a Government decision to prevent eating disorders in young girls and women. This report from Pascal Harter:

It's a source of frustration for customers and shop assistants alike that in Spain women tend to go into the changing rooms with an armful of different sizes never knowing which one will fit this time or whether any will fit at all.


But by 2008 those days could be over. Spain's biggest fashion retailers have bowed to Government pressure to standardise their sizes and reflect the real size of Spain's growing population. For the first time ever the National Consumer Institute will measure Spanish females -- more than eight thousand of them to be exact -- between the ages of twelve and seventy. Spanish fashion houses will then try to fit them, rather than the other way round.


They've also agreed to decorate their shop windows with slightly bigger manikins. The Ministry of Health described the current ones as unreal dolls of alien dimensions which it sees as directly encouraging eating disorders such as anorexia. The move is likely to affect women and girls all over the world as international brands such as Mango and Zara have signed up to the agreement.


Pascal Harter, BBC, Barcelona