Magazines should also start promoting designers who don't design "standard" sizes. Glamour did a good job in a recent online post about Henrietta Pertuz. Now when will Jez write about this?

Justin Bieber is NOT a teen idol. He appeals to the TWEEN market. When you look and sound like you're 12 years old at 16 (or however old he is), people your own age won't give you the time of day. Or maybe I'm missing something (because I'm getting old...another thing: When bands your peers liked in high school now…

Is it also hard to make, say, a 30B?

Can Paris replace the no pants for ladies law with a no manpris law? In fact, can we make that law world-wide? I *HATE* guys who wear pants that are too long to be shorts and too long to be regular pants.

She's got big boobs, but is still really skinny. I want to see tiny-boobed, tiny-framed, short-torsoed and short legged mannequins - i.e. skinny petite. Most stores with petite sizes put petite clothes on regular-sized mannequins.

"Though she puts the wage gap after controlling for all other factors at 95%, there's still a pesky 5% that can't really be explained away."

@Molotov_Cocktease: I think Canadian sizes, especially Montreal-based stores are slightly smaller than American sizes. A US 6 is slightly bigger than a Canadian 6, but a Canadian 6 is larger than a US 4. In the old days, one would add four numbers to convert from US to UK, but two for Canadian.

Most women won't fit into her pants, either. The "inside leg" (inseam) is like 89 cm, which is like 35".

@R-V: For shorter women, tailoring only really works if they are average-short (i.e. around 5'3"-ish) with slightly shorter legs in proportionate to the rest of their body. You can't hem a pair of pants and still expect them to fit properly - it can still look a little baggy. I for one don't want to wear dress pants…

@ShrutiBorus: But so are short, skinny women. Except short, skinny women are not allowed to complain, because they're already skinny...even those who are too small for size 0.

@LVP: Been there, done that. They don't care. They read your email or "listen" to your phone call, but after they're done, they probably laugh. To them, a 30B bra just doesn't "exist."

I work from home, and my "uniform" usually consists of a cardigan or zippy sweater and yoga pants. If I need to meet with people, then I'll switch to business casual.

Schools here in Toronto don't usually get cafeterias until at least middle school (and that's only if you go to an actual middle school. The vast majority of K-8 schools require people to bring their lunch) and from what I remember, the food was moderately junky - there was almost always something reasonably healthy…

Did they purposely choose two wealthy countries and two emerging ones?

Though someone who is 26 may have a bachelor's degree plus a few years of work behind her, those who go on to professional school like law or medicine are barely out!

@funnyface: Roz gave me the wrong size, too. She said that I was a 32 nearly A. Noooooooooo....I'm a 30B-ish! I guess they don't have 30B.

@ChampagneSocialist: I think Playtex still believes in the "add four inches to your ribcage measurement" philosophy. No bra boutique does this anymore.

@rollsnideroll: What about teeny-tiny band sizes? In North America, you have to go to several stores before you can find 28s or 30s. In Europe (even the UK) and Asia, 30s are very common.

I'm a writer and I write in English. I often wonder if I'd be seen a not-so-ethnic writer if I were Petitegal HisJewishLastName rather than Petitegal MyChineseLastName. The fiction I write consists mostly of non-Asian characters, and publishing houses seem to expect that I write "Asian" stories. However, being…

@AnnaBanana: Hey, in my culture, not only could women not vote, but they broke little girls' feet so they'd be teeny tiny and therefore grow up to be sexy (banned around 100 years ago in a "too bad, so sad, deal with it" - the communist government some 30-something years later was even more strict about it). Women…