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Background and Significance Despite the increased need to satisfy overweight and obese female adults’ demands for preferred clothing in the United States, many researchers have already found that there has been difficulty meeting this demand because of unavailable sizes (Greenleaf et al., 2020). To meet overweight and obese female consumers’ needs for proper fit and sizes, it is important to identify their body shapes (BS) and whether the current sizing system reflects them correctly. Only one study has categorized women’s lower bodies using data from body scans of women with BMI of 34.1 or less (Song & Ashdown, 2011). Because the overweight and obese population includes those with BMI of 25 or above and a person’s whole body is not limited to the lower body, further investigations are needed to identify overweight and obese women’s whole BS. As an exploratory approach, the purpose of this study is to categorize the whole BS among overweight and obese women in the United States and examine the effectiveness of the current ASTM sizing systems for each whole BS. Thus, two research questions are posed, as follows: RQ1: What are the whole body shapes among overweight and obese women in the United States? RQ2: How effective are the current ASTM sizing standards for the identified whole body shapes?

Fit Analysis of ASTM Size Standards for Overweight and Obese Women in the United States Based on Body Shapes