Body shape classification of Korean middle-aged women using 3D anthropometry

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Body shape classification of Korean middle‑aged women using 3D anthropometry Minji Yu1  and Dong‑Eun Kim2* 

*Correspondence: [email protected] 2 Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University, #402‑3, Human Ecology Building (Morris Hall), 52, Ewhayeodae‑gil, Seodaemun‑gu, Seoul 03760, South Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

Abstract  Most Korean apparel companies lack suitable dress forms for the different body types of middle-aged Korean women, resulting in poor clothing fit for them. As a part of an ongoing project to develop a dress form that fully reflects Korean middle-aged women’s bodies, this study classified the body shapes and examined the anthropo‑ metric characteristics of women in their 40s and 50s. The 3D anthropometric data of 302 middle-aged women of normal weight (18.5 ≤ BMI  C) ***p