TY - JOUR
T1 - Lower Body Classification of Young Women for Pants Size Optimization
AU - Wen Wu, Rong Zheng & Yunchao Zhang
JO - Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics
VL - 4
SP - 453
EP - 465
PY - 2013
DA - 2013/06
SN - 6
DO - http://doi.org/10.3993/jfbi12201309
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jfbi/4855.html
KW - Lower Body Shape
KW - Factor Analysis
KW - Hipline
KW - Abdomen-hip Differential
AB - Pants fit have always been a problem in China's pant market. To qualitatively improve how well pants
fit consumers, we analyzed the lower body shapes of 179 young women from an anthropometric aspect.
We first used a 3D measuring method to obtain 85 measurements related to lower body shape. Then, by
applying principal component factor analysis method, we used 7 principal components to describe lower
body shape. The first 2 factors, heavy-thin factor and abdomen-hip factor, had the highest cumulative
contribution rate, 40.475%. Therefore, the hipline of the first principal component and the abdomen-hip
differential of the second principal component were used as 2 key indexes to classify the lower body into
9 types. After using both the interior extrapolation method based on interval division and the k-means
cluster method to further classify the lower body shape, we concluded that the former is more suitable.
Therefore, we classified lower body shape into 9 types, the coverage of which reached 80.45% of the total
samples. By taking both the degree of stoutness of the lower body and the difference of abdomen-hip
shape into consideration, this classification can provide a theoretical basis for pants size optimization to
improve pants fit in the waist, abdomen, and hip portions.