A study on the apparel sizing system of adult women

성인여성 기성복의 치수 간격설정에 관한 연구

The purposes of this paper were to suggest the procedures for a sizing sys- tem which can provide good fitting of apparel and minimize the loss due to excessive inventory, and to determine an adequate apparel sizing standard. An anthropometric database used for this study was the 1992 National Anthro- pometric Survey of Koreans. The database was limited to 1,336 women who were 18-51 years old. They study was conducted by classifying ages into two groups (18-33, 34-51) using Wilk's lamda. Three principal components : laterality( fullness), linearity(length) and characteristic of torso were selected to describe body types, and these three body type classification of each group were selected by cluster analysis. It was found that all intervals between standard sizes were not equal. They were narrow around the center with high frequencies of the customers but wide in both tail with low frequencies. It was also found that the optimal sizes suing the loss function can be applied well in practice.