The impact of body surface convex angle on dressed waist ease
International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
ISSN: 0955-6222
Article publication date: 14 April 2020
Issue publication date: 15 July 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The comfort and fit of clothes are affected by fabric properties, dressed ease and environmental conditions, in which dressed ease is influenced by the interaction among complex shapes of human body, style design and fabric mechanical properties.
Design/methodology/approach
In this study, the dressed ease distribution at waist section, which is related to body surface convex angle, was investigated using 3D scanning. A series of surface convex angles on bust and back were formed after adjusting the mannequin. The mannequin was scanned by TC2 separately in garments with eight different ease allowances. Then the dressed ease distributions at waist under different convex angles of body surface have been acquired by calculating the distance between waist points and dressed surfaces along normal directions.
Findings
The results showed that the body surface convex angle was weakly related to the dressed ease when the garments’ bust ease allowance was below 4 cm. When the garments’ bust ease allowance was within 6–12 cm, the body convex angle had a great impact on the dressed waist ease distribution in the condition of 26º–33º bust convex angle and 13.96º–17.96º back slope angle. For slack garments with more than 16 cm ease allowance, the dressed waist ease distribution did not relate to the bust convex angle, while it strongly related to the bust convex angle between 13.96º and 17.96º. The regression model was statistically significant between the dressed ease value and the body surface convex angle.
Originality/value
According to the dressed waist ease distribution of different body surface convex angles, this paper gives an application of pattern modification in order to optimize the waist fit. The results can provide guidance for the optimization of different body shapes. At the same time, the application of gap data to 3D virtual fitting can greatly improve the authenticity of virtual simulation effect.
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Acknowledgements
This paper was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (LY15E050028), Key Laboratory of Silk Culture Inheriting and Products Design Digital Technology, Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Citation
Ying, X., Liu, Z., Chen, G. and Zou, F. (2020), "The impact of body surface convex angle on dressed waist ease", International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, Vol. 32 No. 4, pp. 571-587. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCST-08-2019-0116
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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