Hohenstein Institute has taken on the challenge of catering to different body proportions in a single garment. The project partners have developed modular pieces-called slip-ons for people to try on for different parts of the body. Ladies can try these on in the shop and combine them to achieve the perfect fit. The separate try-on pieces can be used to work out the dimensions and modifications required for factory production of a customised dress. The try-on garments that have now been developed by the Hohenstein scientists encompass not only standard sizes but also models for all kinds of figures. Special rules have been devised to take account of the properties of different materials.
As a first step, the researchers worked out all the sizes and figure types that they needed, for which they were able to call on the body shape data in the Hohenstein Institute data pool. Further, in order to keep the range of try-on sizes as small as possible yet still offer a wide choice, a two-piece clothing system was used which takes account of all possible variations in body shape. It consists of tops designed to be sufficiently flexible around the waist and hips that they can take account of extreme variations on standard garment sizes.
