This part 3 examines the relations among the body sizes, clothing sizes, size number of ready-made clothing which women wear, fitness in each part of the body of the married women who complained of the unfitness of large size readymade clothings in the last survey. Body measurements were also done at the same time.
The results show that although no differences are, in average, found between the actual boby sizes and the body sizes presumed by the women themselves, there are remarkable differences in each women. For example, the difference up to ±5 cm are found between the presumed bust girth of 90 cm and the actual bust girth, showing an inacurate presumption on the size of their own bodies.
Comparing the sizes labeled on commercial ready-made clothings with the actual body sizes of waiste and hip girth, the body measurement of these women has revealed that many women have larger waist girth comparing with their hip girth. Thus, the revision would be much desired of the size of ready-made clothings.
For example, although there are many women whose waist girth is 97-100 cm with the difference between waste and hip girth of more than 20cm, the sizes conforming to these body size is not prescribed in the Japanese Industrial standard (JIS) . According to the survey of womens' concern over their body sizes, many women do not aware of their considerable differences between waiste and hip girth.
Thus the body size of fat married women cannot be dealt with only by the sizes presumed by women themselves.
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