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human
ELI5: Why do men's pants have more specific sizing than women's?

I can get my pants in a 33/30(waist and inseam) but my wife is just a 4.  Since women generally wear more form fitting clothes, isn't this backwards?
gpt
A lot of misinformation in this thread. The answer is much more simple. Woman's fashion started with dresses. It's kind of hard to label a dress with a waist size and inseam. Designers came up with an arbitrary scale to label the various sizes of dresses. When woman started wearing pants that method continued. That way a woman who wore a size 6 dress could expect to wear size 6 pants.