Ooh-la-la - Scoop: health/fitness/nutrition/diet/supplements/personal care/environment - Brief Article

Vegetarian Times, Sept, 2003

> Fashion-conscious, food-loving France now has a 10 percent obesity rate--a third of the United States'--but still alarming enough for clothing designers to revisit the way that they measure, manufacture and size clothing. Responding to a 25 percent return rate on clothes that French shoppers say don't fit, the National Sizing Campaign hopes to resolve what The New York Times describes as "the growing tension between the dreams of designers and the reality of the expanding French physique." Vive le vege, anyone?