The Comparison Research on the Wearing Practice and Fitness Evaluation of Children's Clothing for Obese and Average body shape of Late Elementary Schoolgirls

Abstract : As children's apparel industry expands, there are many researches on purchasing and wearing children's cloth-ing and optimal sizes, but researches on purchasing and wearing children's clothing and the appropriateness of sizes com-paring average body shape and obese children are still inadequate. Therefore, in this research Late ElementarySchoolgirls ranging in age from 12 to 13 are categorized into the average or the obese body type, and by comparing andanalyzing purchasing and wearing children's clothing and the appropriateness of its sizes between these groups, the prob-lems in the size system of children's apparel are realized and the basic information about designing children's clothing foraverage body shape and non-average body shape(out-size)children are presented. The survey questions were composedof topics about general personal information, the purchasing practice and wearing practice, the appropriateness of its sizewhen wearing children's clothing and the practice of mending apparel according to the satisfaction level of children's cloth-ing sizes. Because subjects are often too big to wear children's clothing, and in the case of obese children the deviationof a body type is amplified, therefore in buying and wearing children's clothing, they demonstrate different forms of pur-chasing and wearing characteristics than adults. Considering the practice of increasing obesity in children due to west-ernized eating habits and decreased physical activities, along with developing programs for improving obesity, thedevelopment of an optimal size system in response to various body types will become an important challenge. Key words :purchasing practice, wearing practice, purchasing satisfaction size satisfaction, obese body shape