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postures are palms fisted, holding thumb close to other fingers; standing still during
the scan process; and avoiding taking deep breaths.

11.3.4 Sizing for protective clothing
In planning the manufacture of uniforms, decisions must be made as to how many and
in what size a particular model series should be manufactured, how they should be
labeled, and to what body dimensions the garment sizes should correspond. The pur-
pose of anthropometric parameterization is to introduce garment size classification for
mass production clothing, so as to representatively depict wearers’ body figure diver-
sity. It is in the interests of manufacturers (design time and costs, logistics, etc.) and
buyers/procurement service alike to confine themselves to a minimum number of gar-
ment sizes and to use a possibly less complicated garment size classification.
The main dimension for garment sizing is a measurement that introduces one of the
classifying dimension scales of clothing sizes by the intervallic division of its value
changes, and the clothing products are directly or indirectly (in a coded way) marked
with their standardized values. It is also used for the calculation of other measurement
values of the standard figure and thereby for the construction of patterns of the cor-
respondingly marked garment. There are control dimensions of head girth (headgear),
chest/bust girth, underbust girth, waist girth, hip girth, body height, arm length, leg
length, foot length (socks, footwear), hand girth and length (gloves), etc. The deter-
mination of these main anthropometric parameters and their accuracy affect all future
work in the development of clothing (see Fig. 11.2). If the size is determined incor-
rectly, the potential wearer is directed to an inappropriate size of clothing in the
classification.
According to standards, protective clothing should be marked with its size based on
body dimensions measured in centimeters. The size designation of each garment shall
compose the control dimensions (ISO 8559-2:2017, 2017). The size designation sys-
tem is required especially for labeling. Body dimensions for protective clothing sizing
according to a type are as follows:
l Jacket, coat, vest: chest or bust girth and height;
l Trousers: waist girth and height;
l Coverall: chest or bust girth and height;
l Aprons: chest or bust girth, waist girth, and height;
l Protective equipment (e.g., knee pads, back protectors, torso protectors): select the relevant
measurement:
– chest or bust girth, waist girth, and height;
– body height;
– waist to waist over the shoulder length.
The manufacturer can also designate additional measurements, e.g., the arm length,
the inside leg length, or the hip girth for women’s garments (ISO 13688:2013, 2013).
It is recommended to describe the closest type of figure to the recipients of the
serial manufactured clothing products by means of size titles recorded in or on their
pictograms in centimeters. In pictographic markings, the characteristics of clothing