Abstract:

In order to analyze influencing factors of fitting property of the trouser structure, the waist hip somatotype characteristics and types of specific persons were studied.  Taking 18-25 years old female in Northeast China as the study object, 465 young women were measured by a VITUS three-dimensional human body scanner, and 21 waist hip characteristic variables were selected for analysis. With principal component factor analysis, 5 morphological factors affecting the shape of waist hip were obtained：the factor of girth, height, transverse radius ratio, girth difference and hip convex. According to the morphological factors, 5 categorical variables including buttock girth, distance waist to buttock, buttock width-buttock thickness, difference of buttock and waist, difference of waist back and buttock to vertical were selected for the classification by the SPSS two-steps clustering method. The waist hip shape of the young women in Northeast China are divided into 3 categories. The first type is straight, flat hip and short lean body, the second shape is highlight hip and plump, and the last one is curve, high and flat. The proportion of each type of experimental samples is 27.7%,33.7% and 38.6%, respectively.

Key words: young women in Northeast China, waist hip shape, factor analysis, somatotype classification