Tom Thumb

Is a traditional hero in English Folklore who is no bigger than his father's thumb.
Various allusions to Tom Thumb are included in sixteenth century works; in his Discovery of Witchcraft, Reginal scot includes Tom Thumbe in a list of folkloric creatures such as witches and satyrs that nursemaids told their charges about until the children were frightened of their own shadows^.
Folktales featuring Tom Thumb as the hero appear in print in the seventeenth century.

The Elves and the Cobbler

or The Shoemaker and the Elves is an often copied and re-made story about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from elves.
The original story is the first of three fairy tales, contained as entry 39 in the German Grimms fairy tale under the common title "Die Wichtelmänner". In her translation of 1884 Margaret Hunt chose The Elves as title for these three stories.

In the east...



Small feet are considered beautiful among girls/woman, but to what extent, here are some really weird shoes from Japanese and Chinese woman, what all is done just to make fashion

SHOE SIZE

A shoe size is an alphanumerical indication of the fitting size of a shoe for a person. Often it just consists of a number indicating the length because many shoemakers only provide a standard width for economic reasons.
There are several different shoe-size systems that are used worldwide. These systems differ in what they measure, what unit of measurement they use, and where the size 0 (or 1) is positioned. Only a few systems also take the width of the feet into account. Some regions use different shoe-size systems for different types of shoes (e.g., men's, women's, children's, sport, or safety shoes).

ART

 

Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1490, oil on canvas, 220 × 389 cm, Prado Museum, Madrid

 Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen - 1985 Knife Ship (Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum)

Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg , Dream Pin, Clasp, 1999, The Pace Gallery

 

Accecamento del ciclope Polifemo, Villa di Tiberio - Sperlogna (Roma)

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces.
Koons' work has sold for substantial sums including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist.

more information: http://www.jeffkoons.com/

The alphabet

A- Army
B- businness

C- clothes
D- diameter
E-extralarge

F- family
G- generosity

H- head

I- island

J-Joy

K-Kilometre

L- lake

Alice in Wonderland: Clothe This Girl

 

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton based on the 1865 Fantasy novel Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures

Alice in Wonderland: Potion Making

The biggest beer ad

Geography

Avigliana is a town and comune (municipality) in the providence of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, with c. 11,000 inhabitants, located about 25 km west of Turin. Avigliana lies in the Susa valley, on the highway going from Turin to Frejus (France).
It is best known for two maar lakes, Lago Grande and Lago Piccolo. In the nearby is also the massive Sacra di San Michele.

M- map scale

N- numbers

O- opportunity
P- problem

Q- Quantity

R- Room 

S- shoes
T- T-shirt

U- urban population

V- Vitruvian man

W- waste

X- xerophile

Y-Yard

Z-Zoom

MEASURE

The word size may refer to how big something is. In particular:

• Measurement
• Dimensions: length, width, height, diameter, perimeter, area, volume
• Clothing sizes such as shoe size
• Body dimensions (Anthropometry)
  • Human height
  • Human weight

Measurement is the process or the result of determining the magnitude of a quantity, such as length or mass, relative to a unit of measurement, such as a metre or a kilogram.
The word measurement stems, via the Middle French term mesure, from Latin mēnsūra, and the verb metiri.
The science of measurement is also called the field of metrology.

There are many different systems of clothing measurement around the world. In clothing, dress size refers to a set of standard dimensions for dresses and other women's garments such as tops, skirts, and trousers.

Types of measurements in standard sizes
These standard sizes describe combinations of body measurements that are commonly seen in the general population:

• Horizontal torso measurements that can be specified include the neck circumference, the shoulder width, the over-bust circumference, the bust circumference, the bust-point separation, the under-bust (rib-cage) circumference, the natural waist circumference, the upper hip circumference and the lower hip circumference.
• Vertical torso measurements that can be specified include the back (neck-waist) length, the shoulder-waist length (not the same as the back length, due to the slope of the shoulder), the bust-shoulder length, the bust-waist length, and the two hip-waist lengths.
• Sleeve measurements that can be specified include the under-arm and over-arm lengths, the fore-arm length, the wrist circumference and the biceps circumference.

However, because of the drape and ease of the fabric, relatively few measurements are needed to obtain a well-fitting dress in most styles.

Standards
There are several ISO standards related to Size designation of clothes.

• ISO 3635:1981 Size designation of clothes -- Definitions and body measurement procedure
• ISO 4416:1981 Size designation of clothes -- Women's and girls' underwear, nightwear, foundation garments and shirts
• ISO 5971:1981 Size designation of clothes -- Pantyhose
• ISO 8559:1989 Garment construction and anthropometric surveys -- Body dimensions
• ISO/TR 10652:1991 Standard sizing systems for clothes

The European Union has produced a standard EN 13402 intended to replace existing standards in the member countries. This is not yet in common use.
The United Kingdom has an existing standard for women's clothing BS 3666:1982, however this is rarely followed by manufacturers as it defines sizes in terms of hip and bust measurements only within a limited range. See table of sizes. This has resulted in variations between manufacturers and a tendency towards vanity sizing.
The standard sizes have not had stable names, however. For example, the dimensions of two size 10 dresses from different companies, or even from the same company, may have grossly different dimensions; and both are almost certainly larger than the size 10 dimensions described in the US standard. Vanity sizing may be partly responsible for this deviation (which began in earnest in the 1980s).
The new European standard EN 13402 seeks to address this problem, since it is an absolute scale and mandatory; there is no mandatory clothing size standard in the U.S. In the US there exists a US standard clothing size.