Re: T-shirts

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 03:06, Roger Mills wrote:
<snip>
> I don't know, but I suspect European sizes are based on something metric???
> US sizes (of shirts, jackets etc) are based on the circumference of your
> chest in inches.
> Your 44-46 sounds like it might be half the circumference (88-92 = 34-36
> in.-- that indeed sounds like a Small, but just guessing; and as I say,
> they may shrink).
>
> Even in the US, it's getting difficult to find a proper-size T-shirt.  Most
> of them are made in strange furrin countries, with little conception of how
> big most Americans (and Europeans) are, and I've gotten the impression they
> sometimes mark the sizes at random ;-)
Of course, everybody knows clothes should be sized in terms of random
fractions of a megatonne.  Ie, one quarter of one fiftieth of two hundredths
of a megatonne, three fifths of two twenty-thirds of five eightths of a
quarter of a megatonne, five sixtieths of a quarter-billionth of a half of a
megatonne, etc.

It's easy when you know how, and besides, it's a certified skills shortage
which the bosses can jump up and down and bleat and whine about, and get tax
deductions for.  (-; Don't mind the sarcastic tone, nor the sarcastic smile -
bagging the bosses for welfare fraud is one of the few joys of life I still
have left! <8^}

Wesley Parish

--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."