...But try being a woman of 5'2'' here... Nothing fits. I'm supposed to be tall!
XLT is my new norm. Those generally are perfect for me.Out this way i find that it depends on the cut of the clothes. Some clothes an XL will suffice but sometimes they seem to run smaller than usual and I go with XXL. If I am lucky I can sometime find an XL-Tall which works often.
Modern dress shirts are crazy, if i buy for my neck the shirt is big enough to smuggle Mini-me underneath it.
I feel your pain, I am the same height as you. When I got out of highschool, I weighed a whopping 135lbs, if I bought a shirt to fit my neck it looked like I was a kid in his dads shirt! I still have to buy custom tailored if I want to close the top button on my shirts. Incidentally, Napoleon was 5' 6 1/2" which was average for those days. Wellington on the other hand, was probably around 5'10" in his prime, but developed bad arthritis and stooped, bringing him down to maybe 5"8" or less.Modern dress shirts are crazy, if i buy for my neck the shirt is big enough to smuggle Mini-me underneath it.
I'm 5'6 and weigh 140, with a 36-inch chest and a 29-30 inch waist. I don't have many problems finding nice vintage stuff, but if I'm buying off the rack in the US and Europe I pretty much have to shop at GAP kids or go bespoke/full made to measure. For some very "fashion-conscious" brands I wear a 34.
I always thought the average height of a US/western European male was about 5'8". Are everyone just wearing cloths 3 sizes too big?