Clothing Sizes

Ok, so, I've always found it strange that we use numbers to describe girl's/junior's/women's sizes. It's actually a throwback from WWII when the army needed to make standardized uniform sizes for women.  They took a bunch of women and said, "you're a size 1, you're a size 3,..." etc.  and that's how those sizes came about.

But who came up with baby clothing sizes?  Seriously, if I said, "I'm 35", would that let you know what size pants I need?  I find the baby sizing by age ludicrous.  My daughter is in the 50th percentile for weight and the 79th for height at 9 months....what size pants does need?  Well, she's got some brands of size 12 month, some brands of size 9 month, and some brands all the way up to size 2T (that's two years old!)  and that doesn't account for the shrinkage from crummy non-preshrunk fabrics.  Honestly, what do clothing manufacturers think that they're getting away with?  All of the clothing is the same price in the store for sizes NB to 2T, so, it's not like they're saving anywhere!

Perhaps it's as my husband says- it's preparing them for anorexia in their teenage lives because that's the only way they'd fit into these clothes as babies.

and let's not forget the head-holes.  Babies have large heads, if you haven't noticed, and the holes for the heads to be large enough to get the clothing on their bodies.  But most of the clothes don't have any kind of extra closures at the neck, like snaps or buttons, so you can't get the clothes ON the baby to being with.

Who's designing this stuff?  If you know of someone, please have them review their infant anatomy:  LARGE heads, round tummies, and short appendages.  It would really make it so much easier if you could get the shirts on the babies and not have bumper sleeves from having to roll them back so much.