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Fig. 9.6 Location of bearing area (black) and touching area (dotted) on upper torso for upper
body clothing and below the natural waist for skirts and trousers, and the arm for sleeve.

(2) longitudinal balance, consisting of linear and arc indexes and promoting the horizontal
positions of structural level clothes, respectively, at anthropometric levels of the body.
The linear longitudinal balance includes three indicators: upper, down, and initial. Arc lin-
ear longitudinal balance includes two indicators: front-back and side;
(3) latitudinal balance promotes the concordance between the width of the front and back on
upper and lower bearing areas and the vertical directions of the back seam and front edges.
The transverse balance includes the upper indicator related to the width of the front neck
and back neck and the down indicator related to width of front and back on the hip and bust
levels;
(4) angle balance promotes the difference of sloping similar lines, such as shoulder and side.
The classification of balances is shown in Table 9.9.