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A Suggestion for the Size-designation for Obese Middle-aged Women's Swimsuits

중년 비만여성을 위한 수영복 치수규격 제안

  • Lim, Ji-Yung (Dept. of Fashion Design & Business, College of Science, Daejeon University)
  • 임지영 (대전대학교 자연과학대학 패션디자인.비즈니스학과)
  • Received : 2011.07.06
  • Accepted : 2012.04.18
  • Published : 2012.04.30
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Abstract

This study helps out-size consumers purchase swimsuits and improves fitness by classifying the torso of middle-aged obese women; in addition, it creates a size system based on each size interval for obese types. The criteria for subjects in this study were over 25kg/$m^2$ of the BMI, over 85cm of waist, and over 95cm of bust; 199 females were surveyed. Three torso types were categorized by a cluster analysis into X type (the vertical size of hip girth was the biggest of the three and the waist was slender), H-O type (larger than other groups in bust girth with more fat above the circumstance of the abdomen), and Y type (the upper half of body development type and lower body fatness were between those of type X and those of type H-O). As a consequence of size system establishment according to obesity types, the basic body sizes and reference body sizes were different according to types even in commonly-appeared size names at sections of respective types. The research findings show the necessity to understand obesity types according to bust girth and hip girth sizes that represent basic sizes as well as to design patterns in consideration of the characteristics of obese body shapes when swimsuits are designed for obese groups. The findings can be used as basic data to decide the desirable output of production according to respective body types.

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