2018 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 499-505
The purpose of this research is to clarify the relationship between the female body type and posture and the aesthetic impression it creates. We divided the BMI into 5 levels, body types into 3 levels, and posture into 6 types, making 40 types of sample images created using a 3D body scanner. Questionnaires were conducted with 157 adult women using the SD method. As a result of the principal component analysis, the first principal component axis shows “beauty” and the second shows “plumpness”. From the scatter plot, regarding posture, the weak upright type had the lowest score for beauty. The balanced upright type was considered to be beautiful. The stage of BMI shows plumpness, and when the level of sharpness is low, the level of beauty also tends to be low. The impression of the form of women showed that the elements of posture are strongly related to beauty.
