Cloze test: Spain resizes clothes for women (070126)

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Spain is to change its clothing for women. This is part of a Government decision to prevent disorders in young girls and women. This report from Pascal Harter:
It's a source of frustration for customers and shop assistants alike that in Spain women tend to go into the rooms with an armful of different sizes never knowing which one will fit this time or whether any will fit at all. But by 2008 those days could be . Spain's biggest fashion retailers have bowed to Government pressure to standardise their and reflect the real size of Spain's population. For the first time ever the National Consumer Institute will measure Spanish females -- more than eight thousand of them to be exact -- between the ages of twelve and seventy. Spanish fashion houses will then try to fit them, than the other way round. They've also to decorate their shop windows with slightly bigger manikins. The Ministry of Health the current ones as unreal dolls of alien dimensions which it sees as directly eating disorders such as anorexia. The move is likely to affect women and girls all the world as international brands such as Mango and Zara have signed up to the . (Pascal Harter, BBC, Barcelona)
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