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Fig. 3.7 Profiles of the seven age groups of SizeUK male subjects.
Source: SizeUK database.

3.4.4.2 Regional and international databases

Methodologies developed and used for earlier survey data analysis of dimensional
size, 3-D body shape, and life style data were limited to propriety systems (e.g.,
SizeUK). Subsequent publications, referencing data collected from individual
national or regional surveys and stored in 1-D, 2-D, or 3-D anthropometric portals,
suggest that methodologies for clothing and technological design applications are
now included for processing and analyzing anthropometric data, for example,
Veitch and Robinette (2006); Trieb et al. (2013).
Portals and standards that have been set up for assembling and/or mining these mul-
tinational size and shape survey data include iSize, EUROFIT (2012), WEAR (2012),
and ISO 7250-2.

iSize: Clothing and technological dimensional portal
Launched in 2010, this portal is an international body size dimension developed
between Human Solutions, the Institut Franc¸ais du Textile et de l’Habillement
(IFTH), and the Hohenstein Institute. The portal stores both manual and digital data
collected from more than 100,000 men, women, and children aged from 6 to 75years,
with 44 body dimensions taken from ISO 8559 and ISO 7250. (See above for revisions
of these standards.) This portal enables country, age, gender selections, and analysis of
body dimensions according to target groups. Size tables and grading intervals can be
examined, and some specific 3-D country data are available, for example,
SizeGermany Scantars (3-D avatars). These can be downloaded and transferred to
CAD software systems such as Assyst. Over 120 companies are now accessing mea-
surement data for global applications (iSize, 2009).