2017 Volume 53 Issue Supplement2 Pages S762-S763
The purpose of this study is to confirm the possibility of the application of beauty indices in Japan on Korean women in their 20's to 40's. The 6th Size Korea data and ‘Beautiful Proportions’ and ‘Golden Canon’, the beauty indices of the Human Science Research Center of Wacoal, were used to the analysis. The analysis items include the vertical proportion(bust height, hip height), horizontal proportion(bust girth, underbust girth, waist girth, abdomen girth, hip girth), frontal silhouette(bi-shoulder width, bi-bust point width, hip width) and side silhouette(bust depth, hip depth). The corresponding sample t-test was performed to verify the difference values between the subjects' average body sizes and the beauty indices. The results are as follows: Compared with the subject's body sizes and ‘Beautiful Proportion’, there were significant differences in all items of vertical proportion and horizontal proportion at all ages excluding the abdomen girth and the hip girth in the 40's. For ‘Golden Canon’, there were significant differences in all items of frontal silhouette and side silhouette at all ages. Therefore, applying Japanese beauty indices to Korean women of 2010s is inappropriate, which suggests that developing a new beauty index for Korean women is needed.
