Dear Han, In case you need to refer to it, the International Organization for Standardization document for shoe sizes is ISO 9407:1991.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 2004-05-16 04.29, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [USMA:29530] Re: trousers in Holland: > I put the following message on the Metricsucks board: > > The only trousers bought with sizes in inches in The Netherlands are jeans, > as the manufactureres of these garments only offer their inch sizing system > to everybody in the world who buys their products. > All other trousers are sold in a sizing system using numbers which no-one > understands. > However, the EU countries are going to change to a new sizing system for ALL > clothes, which will include jeans. The system will use a unit of length, no > meaningless numbers anymore. But, unlike the inch-system used for jeans, > that system will use centimetres. > I hope that this opportunity will be used also to change once and for all to > the British-designed metric MONDOPOINT shoe sizing system that has become an > ISO standard; ISO will also adopt the metric sizing system as a standard. > > > > >> Out of interest, how to you buy your trouses >> in Holland? In inches, as somebody maintains >> on this board and others, or in cm? > >> As you say, imperialists are great in using >> daft soft conversions to make metric look >> silly. They keep on harping that a 1/3m is >> ridiculess, as if any metric person would >> ever care about such a useless distance. > > Han > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mighty Chimp > To: U.S. Metric Association > Sent: Thursday, 2004-04-15 1:04 > Subject: [USMA:29525] trousers in Holland > > > Han, > > This was posted to metric sucks as a response to your post. You may want to > go there and answer hos question. > > Euric >> I use the metric system every day and I have >> no use for British and American units at >> all. The stuff down here is total >> gobbledygook to me. I assume that the person >> who wrote this is deliberately spewing >> disinformation and falsehoods about the >> metric system. >> One very common trick of the anti-metric >> ones is attempting to 'prove' how stupid and >> complicated the metric system is and >> invariably they come up with garbage one >> will in fact never encounter in a metric >> country (see below). >> The symbols used are ludicrous, and the >> conversion from 1/4 mile to metric is >> ridiculous. Where you say 1/4 mile, we say >> 400 m (not 400 -/m) and certainly not the >> ludicrous 402.337 m or the absurd concoction >> used for that: 4 h/m....... >> Where you say 3 miles, we say 5 km (not 5 >> k/m). >> And so on. >> Han Maenen, The Netherlands > Out of interest, how to you buy your trouses in Holland? In inches, as > somebody maintains on this board and others, or in cm? > As you say, imperialists are great in using daft soft conversions to make > metric look silly. They keep on harping that a 1/3m is ridiculess, as if any > metric person would ever care about such a useless distance. >
