I also wish they made womens pants like mens sizes. I remember complaining once about how I had to hem my jeans when I was like 12 and I remember my brother saying really matter of factly "Um, go down a length size? Duh.." in which I explained to him the nonsensical womens sizing. He felt pity for us lol.

I was actually thinking about that today, as my jeans dragged on the ground. I'm freaking nearly 5'7"! This isn't fair, short sizes high water on me, but normal sizes are an inch too long. I'm in that stupid limbo where my legs are slightly shorter than normal and my torso is slightly longer than normal. GKJDHGkdsjgkdjs!!!!

And speaking of 00's, there's so many double zero girls at my school. I live in a sort of richy suburban area, and everyone is soooo shallow like that. I'm like, twice the size of a lot of girls here and I'm really not that big anymore! I feel like a whale at school, but that's not the point. Today I was walking behind these two girls who looked like either a zero or double zero, they were TINY. But it was gross because I could see all the bones in their spines and shoulder blades, and they had concave butts, I swear. Coupled with their fake tans and white blonde hair, I couldn't help but think how both unattractive and UNHEALTHY they looked....

My boyfriend dated a girl like that before me and he equating kissing her to "making out with a bag of concrete."

At 5'7" and 119 pounds, in the early 70's I wore a Jr. 9. My sister who was 5'4" wore a 3 which could only be found in 5-7-9 shops and only occasionally. I don't know what she weighed, but she didn't look skinnier than I was.

While most of my clothes were 9's, I did own three skorts: a 9, a 7 and a 5. I think there typically was a lot less difference in size from brand to brand and that this was more of an exception.

In the mid-80s at the same weight I still wore a 9, but I bought one party dress in a 5 because it fit much better.

My daughter, when she became too tall for girls clothes wore a 0 and 1 for several years. Try finding a size one in a school uniform where for the most part junior sizes did not exist - uniforms went from girls' sizes to misses' sizes. Trying to find shorts that didn't fall off but meet the requirement to be no shorter than fingertips was impossible. She had to wear capris, which weren't officially part of the uniform. At least she only had to meet color requirements and wasn't constrained to buy a specific brand. I'm sure we would have had to have a seamstress tailor her clothes in that case. For non-school clothes, the selection in the 0/1s was limited and sleazy. It was hard to find anything appropriate to wear. .

All of this to say that sizes are crazy. Figuring out which stores carry and stock sizes is difficult. And shopping is a nightmare. I do remember going up to a salesperson in Penney's a few years ago to ask if they actually carried any pants in size 16. Yes they apparently did. And apparently they had all been purchased as I could not find a single pair in the store. With computurized stocking systems, I don't understand why the more popular sizes aren't purchased in larger quantities and/or repurchased when sold out or nearly sold out.

The thing that makes me sad is that these 0's and 00's lead to a lifetime of unhealthy eating as a result. This goal is just NOT attainable for the average adult woman. My DH picks up these tiny shirts at the store and is just shocked that we aren't in the little girls section.
I'm not saying that some people aren't healthy in the 0's. I have a niece who is VERY small, and probably will be her whole life. But for most women they will always want to be trying to attain this size 0 perfect body, and never feel good enough at a 6, 8,14 or whatever, when in reality that may be just fine for them. I have to wonder though if people in these size 0's are able to easily bear children? The body naturally shuts down these parts of the body when it can tell someone is not able to physically carry a child. That article that was posted even mentions that (fertility).
I personally have come to terms with the fact that I will always have a little something "extra" on me. I personally am not willing to do what I would have to to be a size 00-6...I still want to eat out with DH in moderation, and live my life. I would like to be smaller from a HEALTH prespective...I just wish that was more of the focus then on how you LOOK....

As long as 00 is only a label and they don't actually make clothes THAT tiny...! I mean, I've said it in a few places, I'm from Argentina and in Argentina there's no law regulating that stores bring a variety of sizes... so everything is size 0, or as they call it the "one size fits all"; of course, that only works for T-shirts and tops... they are TINY and they supposedly stretch, but they don't, so girls like me don't fit in them.

Anyhow, what I'm saying is that I don't care if sizes range from 00000 to 0 as the largest; what would definitely concern me would be if they made clothes absolutely tiny that wouldn't fit regular or curvy women.