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Analysis of Lower-body Obesity-type and Development of Suit-pants Size System for the Abdomen-obese Adult Males

복부비만 성인 남성을 위한 하반신 비만 유형분석과 정장 하의류 치수체계 연구

  • Lim, Jiyoung (Dept. of Fashion Design & Business, Daejeon University)
  • 임지영 (대전대학교 패션디자인.비즈니스학과)
  • Received : 2019.05.27
  • Accepted : 2019.08.02
  • Published : 2019.10.30
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Abstract

This study helps out-size consumers purchase ready-made clothes and improve fitness by classifying the lower bodies of abdomen-obese adult males in their 20s and older; in addition, it creates a size system based on each size interval of obesity type. The criteria for the 559 male subjects surveyed in this study were over $25kg/m^2$ of BMI, over 90 cm of waist, and over 0.85 waist hip ratio. The results are as follows. First, the higher the age group, the higher the degree of abdominal obesity in each age group. The degree of obesity then decreases somewhat as their age increases; however, the risk of abdominal obesity also increases. Second, 3 clusters were categorized by cluster analysis, into abdominal obesity, larger oval-type, trapezoid-type and small cylinder-type. Third, the size system establishment according to lower-body types resulted in basic body sizes and reference body sizes being different according to types even in commonly-appeared size names in the sections of respective types. The above research findings show it is necessary to understand obesity types according to waist and hip sizes that represent basic sizes and to design patterns in consideration of the characteristics of obese body shapes when lower-half body clothes are designed among obesity groups.

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