• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2024

This study investigated the usage and product conditions of clothing companies and online dummy companies for the development of fitting dummy for South Korean women's wear in their 50s and 60s. These women-targeted apparel companies mainly used nude-sized torso type and torso crotch type made of FRP material. The frequency of use of the dummies was high, while the user satisfaction was moderate. Users expressed dissatisfaction with the inaccurate reflection of the body shape according to the KS sizing system and the measurements such as the front and back intercye, upper arms, abdomen, crotch, and waist back length. Upon survey, 73.7% of the respondents answered that development of the dummy and the appropriate age for it is 50 to 54, and they preferred the torso crotch form. In the production of online dummy companies, the torso crotch type and torso type were most widely produced, and polyurethane, FRP, and recycled paper materials were used. The size of dummy was expressed in numerical type, and 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 44, 55, 66, 77, 88 were being produced. Even models of the same size had significant deviation, especially in the waist circumference. Also, there was no dummy reflecting 25%~75% center interval to the KS garment sizing standards of women in their 50s and 60s. Therefore, it is desperately necessary to develop a fitting dummy for KS clothing sizing system that reflect their body sizes and shapes.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.100-117
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• 2010

This study aimed to provide the Korean apparel companies trying to localize their business in the Chinese markets with some data about Chinese young women's body types useful to the development of the apparel designs fitting the Chinese consumers. To this end, the adult women aged between 19 and 25 living in Beijing, Shanghai and Korea were sampled, and thereby, their body sizes and types were measured. All in all, the results of this study confirmed that Korean and Chinese women in the early 20s had similar vertical body sizes but different horizontal body sizes. In addition, the body types were different between Beijing and Shanghai women groups.