This study is to evaluate the production process and feeling to get dressed of the pattern of a formal jacket according to characteristics of a customer's physical figure which is not covered by ready-made clothes and thus is required individually ord...
This study is to evaluate the production process and feeling to get dressed of the pattern of a formal jacket according to characteristics of a customer's physical figure which is not covered by ready-made clothes and thus is required individually ordered one.
The experiment jackets were made to fit the body sizes of overweight middle-aged men subjects who were physical figure "LB" or "LBB" with body mass index over 1.65 which means no ready-made clothes will fit them. Size fitness and wearing comfort of the experimental jackets by each alteration were evaluated.
Alteration methods of jackets were different from each other according to the companies. For the subjects who was "LBB" physical figure with thick belly and 181㎝ in height, the experiment jacket which was small in width between front bodice pattern and back bodice pattern came short of the standard of upside down triangle physical figure set by the National Institute of Technology and Quality, while it induced a better evaluation form the subject who had upside down triangular shape and "LB" physical figure and 173㎝ in height since he had broad shoulders and small waist to better fit in the experiment jacket with a small width between front and back pattern.