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http://dx.doi.org/10.5805/SFTI.2014.16.4.625

Development of a Sizing System of Mass-customized Clothing for Wheelchair Users: Men's Suit Sizes  

Park, Kwangae (Dept. of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH)
Park, Jangwoon (Dept. of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH)
Yang, Chungeun (Dept. of Fashion Design, Catholic University)
Jeon, Eunjin (Dept. of clothing & Science, Kyungpook National University)
You, Heecheon (Dept. of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH)
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Fashion & Textile Research Journal / v.16, no.4, 2014 , pp. 625-634 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study develops a sizing system of mass-customized male suits for wheelchair users. One hundred and three male wheelchair users' 21 anthropometric dimensions were measured to identify body shapes and develop a sizing system. The measured wheelchair users' body sizes were compared with the average body sizes of Korean males from the $6^{th}$ Korean Body Size Survey to understand the body size differences between two groups. As a result of body shape classification using the KS's Drop method, wheelchair user body shapes were classified into four shapes for upper-body (A: 32%, B: 26%, BB: 24%, and Y: 18%), and two shapes for lower-body (B: 70% and A: 30%). The upper-body of wheelchair users was relatively developed than Korean males; however, the lower-body was relatively stunted. The key dimensions of a sizing system were selected as chest circumference, waist circumference, and trunk length, outside leg length based on the correlation analysis between anthropometric measures. The top sizes were determined considering chest and waist circumferences for horizontal sizes, and additionally the trunk length was divided into short, medium, and long groups for vertical sizes. The bottom sizes were selected considering the waist and hip circumferences for horizontal sizes, and additionally their outside leg length was divided into short, medium, and long groups for vertical sizes.
Keywords
wheelchair users; sizing system; drop; key dimensions;
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