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It seems like the sizes have stuck with a normal BMI assumption where that's not the case anymore and most people are overweight so can't find clothes that fit them well without going into plus-sized clothing (which is less fashionable of course).
Have you gone through the posted link? It explicitly explains that that's not the case, that there are also issues like inter-brand variability and clothes being made to fit the 12% of women who genetically happen to have an hourglass figure.