Clothing for children and teenagers : anthropometry, sizing and fit / Norsaadah Zakaria ; The Textile Institute ; designer, Victoria Pearson Esser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zakaria, Norsaadah, author.

Contributor:

Textile Institute.

Esser, Victoria Pearson, designer.

Series:

Woodhead publishing in textiles ; 183.

Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles ; 183

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's clothing.

Children's clothing--Sizes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Woodhead Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This volume addresses the complexities of developing size specifications for clothing aimed at seven to seventeen year olds. Children and teenagers experience rapid physical growth and alterations in body shape as they develop-changes that pose significant challenges in creating apparel sizing systems. The book begins by introducing the principles of apparel fit and sizing systems. Drawing on the author's own fieldwork, it goes on to discuss methods of conducting anthropometric surveys in children and teenagers, and techniques for analyzing the resulting data in order to produce successful sizing systems-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: clothing for children and teenagers

1.1. Historical: manufacturing clothing for children and teenagers

1.2. Introduction: manufacturing clothing for children and teenagers

1.3. The social psychology of clothing for children and teenagers

1.4. The rise in consumption of clothing for children and teenagers

1.5. Conclusions and future trends

References

2. Size and fit of clothing for children and teenagers

2.1. Introduction: clothing sizing and fit

2.2. Physical growth of children and teenagers

2.3. Factors influencing the growth of children's and teenagers' clothing sizes

2.4. Existing sizing systems

2.5. The importance of clothing fit for children and teenagers

2.6. Conclusions and future trends

3. Conducting anthropometric surveys of children and teenagers

3.1. Introduction: anthropometry

3.2. Key issues in the body measurement process

3.3. Manual anthropometric surveys of children and teenagers

3.4. Computerized anthropometric survey for children and teenagers

3.5. Manual anthropometric analysis

3.6. Computerized anthropometric analysis

3.7. Conclusions and recommendations

4. Children and teenagers body sizes and shapes analyses

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Body shape and size in children and teenagers

4.3. Anthropometric data analysis for children

4.4. Categorical data results and analysis

4.5. Continuous data results and analysis for the sample population

4.6. Continuous data results and analysis for the sample population according to gender

4.7. Continuous data results and analysis for sample population according to gender and age

4.8. Conclusions

5. Selecting key body dimensions for the design of children's and teenagers' apparel

5.1. Introduction

5.2. The role of key body dimensions in apparel design

5.3. Analysis of key body dimensions

5.4. Principal component analysis

5.5. Summary

6. Clustering children and teenagers according to apparel size

6.1. Introduction

6.2. The importance of distinct apparel sizes for children and teenagers

6.3. Cluster analysis technique

6.4. The outcome of clustering in a sample population of children

6.5. The outcome of clustering in a sample population of teenagers

6.6. Body characteristics in male and female groups

6.7. Summary

7. Classifying the body shapes of children and teenagers for improved apparel fit

7.1. Introduction: classification of children and teenagers

7.2. Classification methodology

7.3. Classification results for variations in body shapes

7.4. The classification rules based on gender and age groups

7.5. Conclusions

8. Developing apparel sizing systems for children and teenagers

8.1. Introduction: developing sizing systems for children and teenagers

8.2. The importance of body sizes and shapes in sizing system for children

8.3. Sizing system development

8.4. Problems and solutions in selecting sizes for better fit

8.5. Size validation according to gender and age

8.6. Conclusions

9. Designation and validation of apparel sizes for children and teenagers

9.1. Introduction: size designation and validation

9.2. The importance of size designation

Mondoform labeling

9.3. Validation of sizing designation and number of sizes

9.4. Female size designation tables (ages 13

17)

9.5. Children sizing designation potential application to different groups of children and teenagers

9.6. Conclusions

9.7. Recommendations for future work

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 28, 2016).

ISBN:

0-08-100254-8

0-08-100226-2