Quality children's clothing should offer reliable protection for a child from the harmful effects of the environment. It should also prioritize comfort, durability, and safety while providing psychological comfort and contributing to the natural physical, mental, and artistic development of the child. However, production and distribution should also be cost-effective.

It's worth noting that current technologies and production methods in industrial garment manufacturing, even those meeting high standards and utilizing CAD systems, may not always fully meet every customer's demands. Mass-produced children's clothing often lacks in terms of quality and unique style. This is why make-to-order companies play a crucial role in children's clothing production.

Since the quality of a garment depends on how well it corresponds to a child's body shape and size, the development of a method for virtual parametric children's clothing design using a 3-dimensional parametric child dress form can significantly speed up the process of designing individual garments for children. The creation of a 3-dimensional dress form requires a construction methodology based on biosocial information about the child's body.

Children's bodies exhibit a constant irregular physiological and psychological variability. This makes children's clothing design a more complex task compared to adult clothing, which is designed for more standardized body shapes. The mathematical description of a child's body surface is a fundamental data source for developing a methodology for a 3-dimensional interactive child dress form. It's important to consider that a child's posture has a direct impact on their body shape, and any divergence from the applied posture for clothing design can lead to significant fitting issues.

While generic body shapes account for a significant portion of the child population, recent research suggests that children with standard postures make up only a fraction of all analyzed body shapes. This finding emphasizes the need to modify the classification of child posture types for children's clothing design. Recommendations for designing clothing based on individual body shapes should consider not only the spinal contour but also the frontal contour of a child's body.


Information on child body contours gained as a result of this research was integrated into the virtual 3-D environment CAD system. The method of 3-dimentional parametric child dress form construction was also developed.


By assigning the necessary sizing characteristics the user of this system obtains in his disposition a 3-D dress form with the proper posture type. The use of parametric model for child body shape provides a possibility of describing quite a number of body shapes with a relatively small number of mathematical objects.

Thus the use of this approach to constructing a 3-D child dress form and childrens garments design makes the division of body shapes on standard and non-standard unnecessary. Therefore the program in development is universal, i.e. suitable for industrial manufactories as well as small businesses with individual approach. That is critical in the current unstable economic situation.


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