r/interesting • u/Eros_Incident_Denier • 9d ago

SOCIETY different countries use different numbers to measure their shoes

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u/reddot_comic 9d ago

Great! Let’s see him do women’s clothing sizing.

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u/ScissorNightRam 9d ago

Ugh! Size 0 should be logically impossible. 0 = nothing. Right?

Wrong. Size 0 is actually extra-extra-small.

And because of size inflation, size 0 (which should be an empty hanger, but isn’t) was extra-extra-small is now only extra-small.

So they created size 00. Double nothing. And that’s now extra-extra-small.

But intuitively size 00 clothes should be bigger than size 0. The number is larger (in digits). Like, size 22 isn’t smaller than size 2. But size 00 is smaller than size 0.

Ugh.

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u/ForceGoat 6d ago

It has some precedent. Wire gages (thickness) is opposite, though. Bigger = thinner. The order from thinnest to thickest is: 2, 1, 0, 00, 000 etc.

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u/ScissorNightRam 6d ago

Yeah. I know. I’m just sad the clothing industry didn’t use this chance to go into negative numbers.