I need a magician not a tailor

One of my pet peeves is the way women's clothes are sized. Men buy shirts by collar size and sleeve length. They buy pants, by waist size and leg length. Women are expected to cram themselves into sizes like 8, 10, 12, 16, etc. They have petites and talls now, but that still leaves a lot of room for differences in leg and arm length.

I am five foot, six and three quarter inches tall, which used to mean I needed tall sizes for length in the arms and legs, but not any more. The average woman I have coffee with is five foot, eight inches. Tall begins at 5'8" now.

So, why when I look up how to find out if I am small, medium, or large boned, do most of the sites give three wrist measurements?  Going by those I am beyond huge! Today I discovered an article, written by a reputable source that said if you are under 5'2" these are the wrist sizes to use. If you are 5'5" there are others and over that there are others. That makes a lot more sense, because I have known tall, narrow, skinny people who are 6'6" tall and wide, stocky, people who are not even five feet tall.

It turns out I am a pretty normal medium boned woman who is thirty pounds over weight. I have no trouble believing that.

It still doesn't solve the clothes dilemma. I want to buy blouses whose collars fit and whose sleeves reach my wrists.