Barbara Burman, Better and Brighter Clothes: The Men's Dress Reform Party, 1929-1940, Journal of Design History, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1995), pp. 275-290 ...

From dresses and bathing suits to gowns and uniforms, clothes from the 1940s are on exhibit at the Kennedy Center in Washington. It was a time when the world was in turmoil, but U.S. designers ...

That problem can be attibuted to outdating clothes sizing, she said. “The apparel industry is still basing their sizing off of studies done in the 1940s.