No two people are the same, which means individual factors like waist sizes don’t always mean much when it comes to health. In fact, one-size-fits-all charts for weight and health risks aren’t ...

The standard included the first modern women's clothing size charts, and it provides the first ... A size 8 woman had a bust of 31 inches, a 23.5 inch waist, and a weight of 98 pounds.

In 1958, a woman who had a 34-inch bust and a 25-inch waist was considered a size 12. Today ... analyzed the data to produce the commercial standard, they distorted results even further ...

The size of the average American waist just keeps getting bigger ... are expanding faster than BMI (body mass index – the standard measure of overall obesity), the report says.