New Delhi: The Ministry of Textiles has joined hands with the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) to standardize clothing sizes to suit Indian body types.
Generally, the sizes available with popular brands are based on UK or US sizes, which differ from Indian body types. To eliminate this confusion, the Ministry and NIFT are working on making their own standard size chart.
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Monika Gupta, Co-PI Pro, IndiaSize, said, “If we go to the market, want to buy shirts etc., the same size clothes are not available. Talking about men, they are not able to close the neck of their collar. Because we use standard size chart outside. What happens with this is that people abroad have thin necks, people of India are fat, they cannot close the top button, when Indiachart is finished, such problems will be solved.’
Professor Nupur Anand, Principal Investigator, IndiaSize said, “This is a national size survey, under which we will measure and take data of 25,000 people across India in 6 cities and prepare a body size chart that is based on our Indian population So that it gets clothes according to the shape and size of our body.
How the data is collected:
The data is collected so that there is no mistake in taking the measurement. First of all the subjects included in the survey are registered, eyes are examined. They have to answer some questions to understand the background of the person and finally they will wear a special suit, which is a scanning machine. Wearing a scan suit, the person goes to the scanning center. 120 types of data are collected in the scanning center.
Professor Nupar Anand, Principal Investigator, IndiaSize said that it is a 3D Hall body scanning machine. These sensors are mounted in the machine. These sensors capture the body data of the person in the scan suite. This scan suit can neither increase nor decrease anything in the body so that it can hold the body as it is. This is how your body is captured and the data is extracted from the blue lines.
“The data points we capture are peripheral points of the whole body. You’ll find the stretcher, shoulder, chest, waist, hip, leg, arm measurements. You’ll also have segment lenses, how big is the chest. This scanning suite With the help of…the estimated data of men and women across the country will be collected.The survey will be conducted in Delhi,Mumbai,Chennai,Hyderabad,Kolkata and Shillong.So that diversity is also taken into account.Shaping India ”, Anand added.
The work of this survey has been given by the National Institute of Fashion Technology to the DesignSmith, their responsibility is to include people of all stature in the survey. Vikram Sharma, director, DesignSmith, said, “We are about to finish the survey in Delhi, it will be completed next week. There are different places for this, one is in NIFT where people will be brought, second will be walk-in in mall, third will be old age home to collect the size of elderly people.
Shantmanu, director general of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, said, ‘We had bought the scanning machine and could not proceed due to Kovid-19. We started the measurement work two months ago. Our target is to collect around 25,000 samples, till now we have seven thousand. After its arrival, a detailed analysis will be done and a chart will be prepared based on it.
The target is to collect IndiaSize data from across the country by July 2022 and India’s own IndiaSize chart will be ready by the end of 2022. It is quite possible that the domestic textile industry as well as foreign brands may design their clothes according to this Indian size.
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