Study on subjective and objective evaluation of physical beauty of young females in Jiangsu-Zhejiang area

The evaluation of physical beauty is a hot spot of research of clothing discipline. The physical beauty not only contains one's subjective feeling,but also has close relation with the body shape features.3-D body scanner was used to measure 300 young women in Jiangsu-Zhejiang area and the human body parameters and derived parameters obtained were analyzed using the two-stage cluster analysis,then the samples were divided into three types of body shape. 5 derived human parameters were used as the objective evaluation indexes of physical beauty. 10 garment professionals were invited to evaluate the 3-D images of samples of selected types of body shape. correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis of the subjective and objective indexes of evaluation of physical beauty were made,it was found that physique index is the most important evaluation index,and bodies having large breasts are easier to obtain higher beauty grade. The body of the best beauty grade should have conditions: physique index is17. 15 kg / m2,chest-to-waist ratio is 1. 29,waist-to-hip ratio is 0. 737,body height-to-head height ratio is 7. 95,and waist height-to-body height ratio is 0. 607.