Sizing of clothing appropriate for overweight and obese children: methodology stages and the preliminary results

Abstract

The article describes the statistical analysis on the main components and the preliminary results for the development of a table of measurements, focused on the overweight and obesity of children from the north of Portugal, as part of an ongoing PhD research in Textile Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal. In this sense, for the construction of a sample table of measurements, the studies of Huyssteen [1], Silveira [2], and Gill [3], recommend anthropometric studies, health databases and statistical analyzes.