And in the 1980s, 6 was the smallest size made...Very few offered size 4 (or 2 or 0) till towards the end of the 20th century.
Today, size 6 is STILL the smallest size many clothing catalogs carry-and these size 6s would have been 10s or 12s in the 1980s.
Now here's what annoys me : No one in the 1960s I'll bet ragged on size 8 or 9 women as being too thin. In the 1980s, size 6 was the ideal size. Today, size 0 is meant for women with 24--25.5" waists and 34-35.5" hips-the SAME measurements as a 1960s 8 or 1980s 6-and size 0 is called "scary thin", "unhealthy", sexless", "looks like 12 year old boys", and a whole lot of other BS . Why? Why the pretense that size 0 is unusually thin, when no one said that about 1980s size 6 women with the SAME DAMN MEASUREMENTS??????
OOPs-make that 34.5” HIPS. (THough the way things are going, I’ll bet some of today’s size 6s ARE for 34.5” waists!)
I sew some of my garments. In sewing patterns, which haven’t changed, I cut just outside the size 14 line. In some higher end clothing lines, I wear a 10. Basic mall clothes? A six. It hasn’t made sense to me for years.