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 This article was published on Business Insider by Helena Wasserman, Clothing sizes at different retailers can differ wildly.  Most SA women are pear shaped, which can make finding clothes more difficult. There are no official adult clothing size standards in SA. Sizing charts of South Africa’s large clothing retailers show wild and confusing differences between the different brands.  Woolworths thinks its women’s size 14 (bust: 100cm, hips: 109cm) is a medium. That makes you a large (bust: 100cm, hips: 108cm) at H&M and closer to an extra extra large (bust: 102cm, hips 110cm) with Mr Price’s RT brand. And at Cotton...

The Oxford English Dictionary traces collar in its modern meaning to c. 1300. Today's shirt collars descend from the ruffle created by the drawstring at the neck of the medieval chemise, through the Elizabethan ruff and its successors, the whisk collar and falling band.