Development of a Sizing System for Ghanaian Women for the Production of Ready-to-Wear Clothing

Studies on anthropometric body measurements have intensified worldwide because of the numerous garment fit problems the ready-to-wear industry is facing. The absence of any publication of a national sizing system in Ghana, intended for clothing purposes has resulted in the need for a sizing system that will relate to Ghanaian women and satisfy their different body shapes. The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed procedure used for the development of a size chart based on anthropometric body measurements of Ghanaian women. A total of 842 Ghanaian women aged between 16-35 years were measured using manual measuring procedures. A quantitative approach was used to generate descriptive statistics from the raw data to obtain five sizes of a body measurement table. Correlations were used to determine the relationship between the body dimensions and the selection of key dimensions for the size chart. A step by step procedure used for analysing the raw data obtained from the anthropometric body survey is presented. Size codes, size limits, grading increment....