Classification of Lower Frontal and Lateral Body Shapes for the Junior-high SchoolGirls and Analysis of Size Distribution according to the Bodytypes

This study was performed to provide fundamental data on junior-high school girls' somatotype by classifying the lower somatotype and analyzing the characteristics of each somatotype and to suggest a standard sizing system according to lower somatotypes. The subject were 236 Korean junior-high school girls. The subject were directly mea-sured anthropometrically and indirectly analyzed photographically. By direct measurement, 5 factors were extracted through factor analysis and the subject were classified into 4 cluster as their lower body front silhouette. By indirect mea-surement, 5 factors were extracted through factor analysis and the subject were classified into 3 cluster as their lower body side silhouette. After combining the somatotypes of the front and the side silhouette, we selected 4 basic soma-totypes, HH-b, H-l, AA-d and A-l, out of combination. The most frequent size were 73-94 in the HH-b type, 61-82 in the H-l type, 64-90 in the AA-d type and 58-82 in type A-l. This result will contribute to clothing fitness of consumer and the amount of production