Clothing for Children and Teenagers
Anthropometry, Sizing and Fit

This informative book examines the complexities of developing size specifications for clothing aimed at seven to seventeen year olds. Introduces the principles of apparel fit and sizing systems, and discusses methods of conducting anthropometric surveys in children and teenagers, as well as techniques for analyzing the resulting data to produce successful sizing systems.

Norsaadah Zakaria (Author)

9780081002261, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 13 June 2016

240 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.38 kg

Clothing for Children and Teenagers: Anthropometry, Sizing and Fit 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.

1. Introduction: clothing for children and teenagers2. Size and fit of clothing for children and teenagers3. Conducting anthropometric surveys of children and teenagers4. Children and teenagers body sizes and shapes analyses5. Selecting key body dimensions for the design of children’s and teenagers’ apparel6. Clustering children and teenagers according to apparel size7. Classifying the body shapes of children and teenagers for improved apparel fit8. Developing apparel sizing systems for children and teenagers9. Designation and validation of apparel sizes for children and teenagers

Subject Areas: Textile & fibre technology [TDH], Ergonomics [TBDG], Economics of industrial organisation [KCD]