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Akin to Amelia's comment, it has to do with fit variables, trendiness and company size.Men's pants are sold primarily based on waist and inseam (two size variables). This is possible because there is a great deal of predictability of hip measurement in relation to men's waist sizes. The vast majority of the market is covered by the range of 99 sizes (really, there are 99).The same couldn't be said for women. For optimal fit, women's jeans are sold according to 3 variables -waist, hip and inseam. Considering the third variable, for women's jeans to cover the market as adequately as men's, on the order of 300 sizes would be needed. Assuming it were possible for a maker to create all these sizes, it still represents a merchandising (inventory, purchasing and tracking) problem. At retail, if it's nigh impossible to display the 99 men's pants sizes, it is surely out of the realm of possibility to display 300 women's sizes. Point is, assuming the 300 sizes existed, you can't find proper fitting jeans if there is no means to store and display them.With respect to company size, menswear is dominated by larger firms with economies of scale to produce this incredible range of sizes. Each size is costly. These firms become large because menswear is less trendy, it is more static and predictable (less risky). Therefore, if styles change less frequently and there is less risk in new style launches, the company has a longer payback on their investment in sizing development.The same cannot be said of women's clothing. Most women's firms are small (68% have >20 employees) meaning they don't have the financial heft to produce to the equivalent 99 men's sizes, much less the 300 sizes it would take to cover the three sizing variables unique to women's clothing.More is here: Why isn't women's clothing sized like men's?http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/why-isn%e2%80%99t-women%e2%80%99s-clothing-sized-like-men%e2%80%99s-pt-2/

This is actually a truly fascinating subject and I am glad you asked this question! You see, originally Greek sculptors never portrayed nude women in life-sized sculpture—ever. It was perfectly acceptable to portray nude men in sculpture, but never nude women. For the entire Archaic Period (c. 800 – c. 510 BC) and most of the Classical Period (c. 510 – c. 323 BC), no one dared portray a nude woman in marble on a life-sized or larger-than-life-sized scale.We do have some small-scale Greek depictions of nude women from these time periods, but no life-sized statues. Even small-scale depictions generally tended to shy away from female nudity. You know how modern depictions of the birth of Aphrodite almost always show her nude? Well, that was not always the case. One of the earliest depictions we have of the birth of Aphrodite comes from the back of the Ludovisi Throne, which probably dates to around 460 BC or thereabouts. It shows Aphrodite rising from the sea, draped in a wet, diaphanous garment, but still technically fully clothed:(Please note that, like all ancient Greek sculptures, this relief would have originally been brightly painted. The only reason why most Greek sculptures appear white today is because all the original pigmentation has naturally deteriorated.)The taboo against portraying life-sized nude women in large-scale works of art was finally broken in the fourth century BC by the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles (lived c. 400 – c. 340 BC). In around the late 350s BC or thereabouts, Praxiteles carved the Aphrodite of Knidos, the first full-sized marble statue of a nude woman ever produced by a Greek sculptor.Praxiteles allegedly used the famed hetaira, or high-class courtesan, Phryne of Thespiai (lived c. 371 – probably after 315 BC) as his model for the Aphrodite of Knidos because she was known throughout all the land for her incomparable beauty. Personally, I like to think that it may have also been because she, as a prostitute, was one of the only women he could find who was willing to pose for such a risqué work of art, but I do not have any solid evidence to support that view.Praxiteles’s original sculpture, like most original Greek sculptures, has not survived, but a massive number of later copies of it have survived. Here is a later Roman copy of it with some modern restorations that is probably very close to what the original would have looked like. (However, this sculpture—like Praxiteles’s original and like all of the other sculptures we will see in a moment—would have also been originally brightly painted.)Praxiteles, though, supposedly had a tough time trying to sell his statue on account of its nudity and seductive posture. According to the Roman writer Pliny the Elder (lived 23–79 AD), Praxiteles made two identical copies of the statue with one crucial difference: one was naked and the other was clothed. Praxiteles offered both statues to the people of the island of Kos for the same price; they bought the clothed statue, but not the nude one, fearing that a nude statue would bring their island into ill-repute.In around 350 BC, the nude Aphrodite of Knidos was purchased by the people of the city of Knidos because they believed (correctly, as it happens) that the statue would bring their city eternal fame and glory. They displayed the statue in the sanctuary of Aphrodite Euploia (“Aphrodite of the Smooth-Sailing”).The Knidians were right. Once it was put on display, Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Knidos almost immediately became a massive sensation throughout the Greek world. An epigram attributed (probably spuriously) to the Athenian philosopher Plato (lived c. 427 or c. 423 – c. 347 BC) claims that, when the goddess herself saw the statue, she asked when Praxiteles had ever seen her naked.In addition to gathering fame and reputation, the Aphrodite of Knidos attracted tourists to Knidos in droves, all of them eager to see the scandalous new statue Praxiteles had created. The Knidians came to love the statue so much that they placed its image on their coins! See this coin here? That figure on the left is the Aphrodite of Knidos:The Aphrodite of Knidos basically single-handedly put Knidos on the map for every sight-seer and tourist in the ancient Greek world. The next thing you knew, everyone wanted life-sized statues of naked women. At first, most of these statues were just copies or imitations of Praxiteles’s masterpiece, but, later, artists started to grow more inventive. They began depicting Aphrodite in a variety of different poses.Here we have an Aphrodite of the Capitoline Venus type, which is similar to the Aphrodite of Knidos type, but with slightly different positioning:Here we have the Aphrodite of Melos, another one closely related to the Aphrodite of Knidos type:Here is a statue of the Aphrodite of Syracuse type, once again, clearly derived from the Aphrodite of Knidos type:Now here are a few types of statues that are also derived from the Aphrodite of Knidos type, but a little bit more different. Here we have Aphrodite crouching:Here we have Aphrodite untying her sandal:Here we have an Aphrodite Kallipygos (“Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks”):I think everyone gets the idea. After Praxiteles did it, everyone started making statues of the naked Aphrodite.The Aphrodite of Knidos became more than just a statue; it became an icon as recognizable in the ancient world as the Statue of Liberty today. Centuries later people were still awed by it. Pliny the Elder acclaims it in his Natural History as the greatest sculpture ever made. The statue was as famed as the Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, or the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, or the Colossus of Rhodes.For the Syrian satirist Loukianos of Samosata (lived c. 125 – after 180 AD), the Aphrodite of Knidos was the statue of Aphrodite and, indeed, this one statue did more to cement Aphrodite’s iconography than probably any other—and, above all, it cemented her image as the naked goddess. Thus, even though actual women continued to dress modestly, nude statues of women proliferated.Nonetheless, there was a very important rule you had to always keep in mind when making statues of naked women during the Hellenistic Period (c. 323 – c. 31 BC). That rule was that the statue had to be of a nymph, a goddess (almost always Aphrodite), or a prostitute. It could never be of a “respectable” mortal woman because that would be just, you know, wrong… until eventually even this most sacred rule was broken.Behold! This is a statue of Marcia Furnilla, the wife of the Roman emperor Titus (ruled 79 – 81 AD):What do you notice about her? Well, for one thing, she is naked. For another thing, she is in the exact same position as the Capitoline Venus that I showed earlier. During the first century AD, some Roman noblewomen like Marcia Furmilla started wanting to have themselves portrayed as the goddess Venus herself. Now even “respectable” mortal women could be portrayed naked in statues and art.Ultimately, there are a lot of different reasons why this disjunction between how real women actually dressed and how women were portrayed in sculptures existed. We could examine this from a sociological angle, or from a feminist perspective, or from a psychological perspective, or from all kinds of other perspectives.One of the main reasons, though, was because one sculptor made a statue that defied all the norms and everyone loved it so much that they all started imitating it.

As far as I know, EU sizes are the same for everyone. I've certainly seen the same hiking shoes and boots being sold to people of all genders. It was a bit of a surprise to realise that's unusual!