Fitness of clothes becomes a major concern in apparel industry. Development of basic slacks pattern will enhance the fitness of clothes. But there are lower body basic slacks patterns for the obese elderly women.
The purposes of this study were to cl...
Fitness of clothes becomes a major concern in apparel industry. Development of basic slacks pattern will enhance the fitness of clothes. But there are lower body basic slacks patterns for the obese elderly women.
The purposes of this study were to classity lower body types of obese elderly women and to provide the basic slacks patterns based on the analysis of their lower body types. The subjects for anthropomentric measurement were 100 obese elderly women of the conditions for obesity:1.6 in Rohrer index, over 55 year-old and 6 obese elderly womens were selected among them for wearing tests.
The result of this study can be summarized as follows;
1. 7 foctors were extracted from anthropometric measurements through factor analysis. The foactor were corpulency of lower body build, higer of lower body, curvature of wasit·hip, abdomen-hip drop value, length of lower body, protuberant abdomen and tickness of lower leg.
2. characteristics of different obese body types
1) In the study of obese lower body type, 7 factors were found as a result of factor analysis and obese lower body types were classified 2 types according to the cluster analysis.
2) Type 1 : large in all lower body measurements.
Type 2 : the front of the abdominal depth was high indicating the protruding of the abodminal region.
The dimensions of new slacks pattern by this research was framed as follows;
1) slack hip girth / 4 = slanting hip/4
2) slack wasit girth / 4 = w/4 + 2.5cm
3) front 1 dart length = 10cm
front 2 dart length = 12cm
back dart length = 12cm
4) front dart position = (w/4+2.5)/3
back dart position = (w/4+2.5)/2
5) front crotch extension = (slanting hip/16)-1.5cm
back crotch extension = (slanting hip/8)-1.5cm
6) back below descending amount = 2cm
7) front center line rising amount = 1.2cm
8) knee ling position = (crotch extension line∼hem line)+5
9) front width of hem line = 18cm
back width of hen line = 20cm
Wearing test by the sensory evaluation showed that the devoloped slacks pattern was estimated more higly then existing pattern in the items of the comfort of front crotch and back crotch.