Clothing for Children and Teenagers

1. Introduction: Clothing for children and teenagers

• 1.1. Historical: manufacturing clothing for children and teenagers
• 1.2. Introduction: manufacturing clothing for children and teenagers
• 1.3. The social psychology of clothing for children and teenagers
• 1.4. The rise in consumption of clothing for children and teenagers
• 1.5. Conclusions and future trends

2. Size and fit of clothing for children and teenagers

• 2.1. Introduction: clothing sizing and fit
• 2.2. Physical growth of children and teenagers
• 2.3. Factors influencing the growth of children’s and teenagers’ clothing sizes
• 2.4. Existing sizing systems
• 2.5. The importance of clothing fit for children and teenagers
• 2.6. Conclusions and future trends

3. Conducting anthropometric surveys of children and teenagers

• 3.1. Introduction: anthropometry
• 3.2. Key issues in the body measurement process
• 3.3. Manual anthropometric surveys of children and teenagers
• 3.4. Computerized anthropometric survey for children and teenagers
• 3.5. Manual anthropometric analysis
• 3.6. Computerized anthropometric analysis
• 3.7. Conclusions and recommendations

4. Children and teenagers body sizes and shapes analyses

• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Body shape and size in children and teenagers
• 4.3. Anthropometric data analysis for children
• 4.4. Categorical data results and analysis
• 4.5. Continuous data results and analysis for the sample population
• 4.6. Continuous data results and analysis for the sample population according to gender
• 4.7. Continuous data results and analysis for sample population according to gender and age
• 4.8. Conclusions

5. Selecting key body dimensions for the design of children’s and teenagers’ apparel

• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. The role of key body dimensions in apparel design
• 5.3. Analysis of key body dimensions
• 5.4. Principal component analysis
• 5.5. Summary

6. Clustering children and teenagers according to apparel size

• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. The importance of distinct apparel sizes for children and teenagers
• 6.3. Cluster analysis technique
• 6.4. The outcome of clustering in a sample population of children
• 6.5. The outcome of clustering in a sample population of teenagers
• 6.6. Body characteristics in male and female groups
• 6.7. Summary

7. Classifying the body shapes of children and teenagers for improved apparel fit

• 7.1. Introduction: classification of children and teenagers
• 7.2. Classification methodology
• 7.3. Classification results for variations in body shapes
• 7.4. The classification rules based on gender and age groups
• 7.5. Conclusions

8. Developing apparel sizing systems for children and teenagers

• 8.1. Introduction: developing sizing systems for children and teenagers
• 8.2. The importance of body sizes and shapes in sizing system for children
• 8.3. Sizing system development
• 8.4. Problems and solutions in selecting sizes for better fit
• 8.5. Size validation according to gender and age
• 8.6. Conclusions

9. Designation and validation of apparel sizes for children and teenagers

• 9.1. Introduction: size designation and validation
• 9.2. The importance of size designation—Mondoform labeling
• 9.3. Validation of sizing designation and number of sizes
• 9.4. Female size designation tables (ages 13–17)
• 9.5. Children sizing designation potential application to different groups of children and teenagers
• 9.6. Conclusions
• 9.7. Recommendations for future work