Development of Kinematic Soft Dummy and Application on Clothing Pressure Measurement of Menʼs Suit Pants

Abstract

The development of a right tool and metric for evaluating clothing comfort has received increasing interest. In this study, a dummy of the lower half of the human body was developed. The dummy was produced using a soft material and integrated with a kinematic function (hereinafter, referred to as “kinematic soft dummy”). The kinematic soft dummy was expected to reproduce the distribution of clothing pressure observed on test persons after placing a garment on it. A tool of this type could be applied to evaluate the motion adaptability of garments. In particular, it could be useful to fashion designers, textile makers, and pattern makers for always integrating their perception of motion adaptability into the design, development, and production stages, respectively. It could also enable customers to know the assessment results of the motion adaptability of a garment when they shop online, which is very useful for reducing the high return rate caused by unmet expectations. For the design and development of a dummy suitable for measuring clothing pressure, four important functions should be implemented: (1) Accurate replication of the body proportions and dimensions of a test person model; this not only offers high accuracy to the result of clothing pressure but also universalizes the result to be comparable. Such a dummy is called an anthropomorphic dummy. (2) Replication of body stiffness, which highly impacts the action and reaction of stress or its 【Transaction】