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A Study on the Body Proportion and Proportional Dimension Standards for Chinese Women - Focusing on the analysis of the high-frequence group -  

Kim, Eun-Hee (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sookmyung Women's University)
Sohn, Hee-Soon (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sookmyung Women's University)
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Journal of Fashion Business / v.10, no.6, 2006 , pp. 91-109 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims at strengthening the national competitiveness of Korea's clothing industry as it provides substantial information on the human body proportion and proportional dimension standards for Chinese women and improves the fitness of clothing, considering human proportion in the production of clothing products for export to China. This study selected by simple random sampling Chinese women in Beijing and Shanghai, China, whose age is between 19-50 from June 23 to August 7, 2004. The stature of the average Chinese woman belonging to the High Frequency group is 7.09 times as long as the length of the head. We developed the body proportional dimension standards with the same proportion with High-Frequence group. The basic size of proportional dimension standards for Chinese women has the stature of 159cm, (chest circumference)/2 of 42.8cm.
Keywords
Chinese women; Body proportion; proportional dimension standards;
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