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If you are knitting without a garment pattern. It's nearly impossible to translate people sizes from clothes to knitting. Unless a size determines "inches", sizes are not really determined and regulated for uniformity. They are set as a rule of thumb and each design company establishes what is a specific size. That's why clothes run bigger or smaller and not an exact fit. Also the marketing value, specially for female clothes, of wearing something that says size 2 and fits like a glove when you really are not a size2.

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