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I suppose one of the many reasons why there are no consistent clothing sizes is because it's so difficult to agree on a way to measure things. What parts do you measure? The lower leg thickness? the upper leg thickness? the waist circumference? The leg's length? What if these numbers are all independent of each other and can't be reduced to a single number?
We have centimetres, how hard is it to just provide the measurements of a piece of clothing with it?
different cuts exist that already set out at least some standards for this
I don't disagree that it is difficult, but we have the ability to do this. We've done more difficult things
if companies actually did share 5 numbers with each piece of clothing (notice that that actually wouldn't work since each piece of clothing is a bit different since they're still largely hand-sown and measuring each piece of clothing is unpayably expensive) it would lead to a bureaucracy hell. businesses in europe already complain about too much bureaucracy, because they have to document a lot of things, and this would make the outcry a lot worse.
on top of that most customers wouldn't actually bother reading a datasheet of 5 numbers and instead just try them on. so it's not even a big advantage.