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The Structure of Body Measurements for the Determination of Shoe Sizing for Young Croatian Men
Nataša Kalebota
Lajos Szirovicza
Ljiljana Tucaković-Mujagić
Mirko Drenovac
Sažetak
The determination and promotion of the system of shoe sizing requires accurate
knowledge of morphological properties of the foot and lower leg of the tested population.
Similarly it is necessary to establish the occurrence and regional distribution of definite
sizes in the tested population. Possible regional differences in morphological properties
must not be ignored because it has been established by means of anthropological measuring
that both foot dimensions and foot shapes differ between populations and within
the same population. This has been proven by the investigation of body measures, carried
out for the purpose of establishing a system of footwear sizes, which was executed
on a randomly selected sample of 4,268 healthy and normally developed males aged
18–22. The investigation was carried out in 1993 on five locations each of which representing
a definite region of the Republic of Croatia: Jastrebarsko (central), Koprivnica
(northwestern), Pula (southwestern), Sinj (southern) and Po`ega (northeastern). The
measuring instrument was 31 foot and lower-leg sizes according to the existing ISO
standards for footwear. Interregional differences are significant in all body measures.
The role and the contribution of individual measures to these differences has been established
by means of discriminatory analysis with regions as a priori defined samples. In
order to constitute a convenient and purposeful standard for the footwear size system it
is necessary to work out a database with referent values for the same system.
Ključne riječi
anthropometry; foot; dimensions; shoe fit
Hrčak ID:
28178
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2003.
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