Wearing Sensibility Related to Body Shape in Middle Aged Women.
10.11637/kjpa.2001.14.3.195
- Author:
Youngsuk LEE
1
Author Information
1. Department of Clothing and Textiles, Chonnam National University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Middle aged women;
Body measurement;
Body proportion;
Discriminant function analysis
- MeSH:
Aging;
Arm;
Female;
Hip;
Humans;
Middle Aged*;
Nipples
- From:Korean Journal of Physical Anthropology
2001;14(3):195-205
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
The present study was performed to examine wearing sensibility related to body shape in middle aged women. Body measurements, front and side views and index values between girth measurements were used as the body shape comparison elements. The results obtained are as follows. 1. Bust girth, waist girth and hip girth in middle aged women showed greater values (respectively : 6%, 11.4% and 3.4%) than in young aged women. 2. For the drop value between hip girth and bust girth, the results were 7.3 cm in tweenties, 3.6 cm in thirties, 4.2 cm in forties, 1.5 cm in fifties and 0.7 cm in sixties. 3. Front and side shape examination: Assuming a value of 1.00 for the waist breadth and waist depth, the results in middle aged women were 0.7 and 1.2 in nipple and hip breadth, and 1.1 and 1.1 in bust and hip depth. 4. The sensibility related to body shape, abdoman, waist and arm were most reshaped elements by aging.
