Research on subdividing of young female′s hip shapes based on 3-D body measurement

How to achieve precise body shape analysis is a key issue to meet consumer requirement on apparel fit.In order to improve the fitting of garment on hips,this paper focused on the differences of curves about hip sections to study on subdividing of young female′s hip shapes by statistical analysis.Measurement of 300 young college female students of 20-24 year old were taken with a 3-D body scanner;the position data of 28 items relating to the hips was examined using cluster analysis,and typical index algorithm was used to extract 6 typical indices that can fully reflect the information of hip characteristics.Based on analysis of variance of the typical indices,the body shapes of female′s hips were subdivided into 5 types;and finally,the rationality of this subdividing was verified by comparing the sectional feature curves of each type of hips.