Madrid - The Spanish government intends to seek a new, European Union-wide system of clothes sizes after a study on more than 10,000 Spanish women showed that 41 per cent of them found it difficult to buy clothes that fit properly, press reports said Friday. The study followed complaints by women that many textile companies only seemed to make clothes for young and very thin women. Clothes sizes also vary between companies, making the same number correspond to different sizes.

Eighty-six per cent of the women studied had a healthy height- weight ratio. Their average height was 1.62 metres and average weight 57 kilograms.
 

"We will move towards a new system which, I hope, will be adjusted to the real measures of women," Health Minister Bernat
Soria said.