2005 Volume 46 Issue 4 Pages 227-235
Since fashion information is exchanged all over the world in the present time, the importance of the study on an international body type is increased. In this study, a comparison of the body types between Korean and Japanese young adult women was studied by silhouette photographs.
From the result of significant test between the measured body items, the young Korean adult women were tall in height but short in legs. A waist line was not notably narrow from the front view, and the back depth was thick on vertical line from tragion.
In the result of the principal component analysis which bundled up both countries, four primary factors were found: 1) fatness, 2) posture, 3) shape of buttocks, and 4) stature and the length of legs.
In the result of a significant test during the principal component scores of the both countries, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd factors among four primary factors had some significant difference.
From the above results, it became clear that a difference exists between the body types of young Korean adult women and those of young Japanese adult women.
