Abstract
This research was designed to clarify the relation between sleeve-length and dress-length involving upward movement of right arm. Five subjects participated in determining the increase of dress-length suspension according to differing sleeve lengths and upward right arm motions, and waist measure-points.
The results are as follows :
1) Amount of suspension experimented with three different sleeve lengths is almost double that of a sleeveless one-piece dress for all three arm motions tested, indicating that sleeve or sleeveless is a factor that influences the extent of suspension.
2) Analysis based on three upward arm motions shows that amount of suspension for the straight upward arm lift is approximately 2.5 more than that of either side or front arm lifts.
3) Waist measure-points for all three arm movements show that the greatest suspension occurs on the right, followed by center-front, center-back and finally left waist-points measured; the ratio being 12 : 7 : 4 : 1 respectively.
Such results testify that amount of suspension caused by differing arm movements must be given consideration in establishing dress-lengths.
