On Tuesday we met Hein Daanen. Hein prepared a short presentation for us to”prevent some possible questions”, which, in contrary, triggered some more interesting ones.
Hein’s presentation was about sizing and fit of bras. One of some interesting questions raised there is this one: “How can we cover the user population with the least number of sizes?”
This is quite an exciting topic. Although there has already been different sizing systems and corresponding ways of bust measurements, 4 out of 5 women have trouble finding an appropriate bra. Fitting problems have been a very serious problem among those with a bra. A very important issue in bra design is the accurate measurement.When thinking about addressing this problem with 3D modeling, we thought of using 3D Scanning technique. There are already different types of 3d scanning technologies and products, and some can produce very high resolution 3D models. For building an accurate model and analyzing it 3D Scanning can be a very nice solution.
In the coming period we will do some research on female bust modeling and bust movement, maybe also skin pressure detection. They are all very intriguing topic to us and we hope to gain some inspiration during researching. Hein also sent us a lot of research articles on bra fit, which can be very helpful to our study.
We are looking forward to more interesting findings.
Hein Daanen
Professor in Fashion Research and Technology, AMFI – Amsterdam Fashion Institute, CREATE-IT Applied Research, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Professor in Thermal Physiology, MOVE Research Institute, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam
Scientist at TNO
Director at Sizing Science