Twin Cities PBS | Why Clothing Sizing Is Broken and How We Might Fix It | Worn Within @TwinCitiesPBS | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Finding the perfect fit can be challenging, but textile experts from the University of Minnesota may have a solution. In this episode of Worn Within, we explore the history of our bizarre and broken sizing system and how it has shaped how we see our bodies and the clothes we wear. We also visit Cat Polivoda and Paxyshia Yang of Cake, Plus-Size Resale store in Minneapolis, MN.

01:29 What are robotic textiles?
01:51 What is human dimensioning?
02:01 What is anthropometrics?
02:38 Where did our current US sizing system come from?
03:00 Clothing facts about the industrial revolution
04:13 Vanity sizing
05:30 Body positivity movement
05:50 Destigmatizing sizing descriptions
06:03 #bodypositivity
07:26 Robotic textile technology

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