1990 Volume 41 Issue 12 Pages 1195-1204
Factor and cluster analyses were applied to the body measurements below the waistline obtained from 229 females aged 18 to 20, to classified the body type from the waist to the thigh, for the purpose of evaluating the skirt silhouette in wear.
By means of Ward and k-means method, the subjects were classified into 13 clusters according to the factor scores, which were obtained from 8 factors, providing the information of 28 items. These 13 clusters were divided into several sub-clusters, depending mainly on girths of the body from the waistline to the thigh : 2 clusters for the persons of small size, 8 for the persons of medium size, 3 for the persons of large size. The differences in balance among body parts, or those between breadth and depth of each parts, based on the raw data of these clusters, were observed, even though the waist girth and/or the hip girth were nearly the same size.
