Later on, in his attempt to establish a unified, fascist state, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini saw language standardization as an important objective.
Even if you had the 26 sizes, it probably still wouldn't work because human bodies are diverse enough that they're consistently resisting the standardization of sizing.
Conformity , standardization , similarity ----all on a cheap and vulgar level ----are replacing the great American ideas of colorful liberty and dignified individualism .
Standardization was well under way by around 1650, but it was a slow and halting process and names in particular were often rendered in a variety of ways.