Comparing Samples from Different Countries for Key Sizing Dimensions
Young Suk-Lee1), Kathleen M. Robinette2) and Daisy Veitch3)
1) Dep. Of Clothing and Textiles, Chonnam National University, Gwangju,
2) Air Force Research Laboratory ,AFRL/HEPA 2800 Q Street.Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7947
3) SHARP Dummies Pty Ltd,
The globalization of world markets with the increase of imports-exports between an ever greater number of countries means that concurrence will benefit those who can satisfy demand, in their own national market as well as abroad, with the best accuracy.
Quite a few countries have gathered data on the human body characteristics of their populations and in particular developed sizing systems based on key sizing dimensions. These are of great utility not only for the national garment manufacturers but also for all makers whose objective is to propose ready-made clothes for outside markets.
But if most industries are interested in anthropometric data, their need is however not only focused on raw data. Transforming these data in a comprehensive and suitable manner to facilitate their integration in the design process is usually also needed Computers nowadays are a big help in the task of prototyping, facilitating the procedure of creation. Thus digital models can be run on the basis of 3D or 1D anthropometric data. Key dimensions considered as constraints can supply the range of variation for each body area looked at, and other criteria are defined as a function of the fixed constraints
At the present time, work is done on the identification of the need of the consumer, analysing shape variability. Analysing the human body shape variability, using key sizing dimensions from each countries must be paired with the analysis of the statistical methods used for the determining these key dimensions . Many different approaches for the comparison of the human body shape variability in each country will be evaluated as those proposed data by Lee 1999-2003.
We have focused here our attention on some databases of countries such as Germany, France , Italy, Japan , US, Australia and Korea, an aimed at drawing a certain number of comparisons between the key dimensions of these , comparing them also with the body shape contents. The key dimensions concerned the chest [C], waist [W] , height [He] and hips [H] and, in addition, the corresponding drop values C-W, C-H and W-H. reviewed.
Keywords : key dimension, sizing, clothing, anthropometry, body shape, statistic value