Kimberly Adams

One thing that hasn't really evolved with the times is how the industry does sizing, specifically when it comes to women's clothing.

Amanda Sakuma wrote about the chaos that is women's sizing for the visual essay news site The Pudding the other day.

Amanda, great to talk with you.

Hi, thanks for having me.

So what did you find when it comes to how women's sizing works in American clothing?

One of the things that was interesting to me looking at your piece was that you really lay out how well sizes fit the average woman changes over the age of a woman.

And when you say that, you know, half of women are left out of standard sizes, these are women who are going shopping and basically being made to feel that their bodies are, you know, outside the norm.

How does all this compare to sizing for menswear?

How has doing this reporting changed the way that you buy clothing?

I was going to say, that's pretty grim for the average woman to be like, the sizing doesn't work, so you just have to make your own clothes.

No.

I'm not going to.

Amanda Sakuma is a freelance journalist and her recent piece is in The Pudding.

You should check it out.

Thanks so much, Amanda.

Thanks so much.

This final note on the way out today, the Treasury Department put out the latest numbers on the federal deficit this morning, just over a trillion dollars for the fiscal year through February.

That's about 12 percent lower than the deficit this time last year, helped along by the tariff revenue generated mostly from U.S.

consumers and businesses.

But those lower deficit numbers might not be with us for long.