A quantification of the preferred ease allowance for the men’s formal jacket patterns

Fashion and Textiles

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Table 5 Correlation coefficients between the body size measurements and preferred ease allowances

Body size measurement variables	Preferred ease allowance variables
Body size measurement variables	Chest circumference	Chest–waist circumference on the jacket	Chest–hip circumference on the jacket	Upper arm circumference	Bi-shoulder length	Sleeve length	Ratio of jacket length to stature
Chest circumference	− 0.314*	− 0.506***	− 0.461***	− 0.442***	− 0.162	− 0.331**	0.405***
Waist circumference	− 0.037	− 0.671***	− 0.589***	− 0.299*	− 0.065	− 0.351**	0.495***
Hip circumference	− 0.128	− 0.514***	− 0.541***	− 0.236	− 0.019	− 0.303*	0.391**
Upper arm circumference	− 0.239	− 0.492***	− 0.416***	− 0.681***	− 0.054	− 0.267*	0.381**
Bi-shoulder length	− 0.246	− 0.318*	− 0.344**	− 0.315	− 0.632***	− 0.163	0.296*
Arm length	− 0.242	− 0.326**	− 0.230	− 0.212	− 0.184	− 0.126	0.021
Stature	− 0.052	− 0.093	− 0.011	− 0.131	− 0.197	0.279*	− 0.260*
Weight	− 0.054	− 0.520***	− 0.517***	− 0.224	− 0.035	− 0.283*	0.348**
BMI	− 0.032	− 0.499^***	− 0.535***	− 0.162	0.073	− 0.455***	0.502***
Chest–waist circumference	− 0.350**	0.596***	− 0.500***	− 0.024	− 0.093	0.222	− 0.398**
Chest–hip circumference	− 0.288*	0.012	0.123	− 0.320*	− 0.221	− 0.044	0.021
Age	0.274*	− 0.253*	− 0.065	− 0.155	0.173	0.026	0.382**

The italic value is the correlation coefficient of the independent variable showing the strongest correlation with each dependent variable
* p ≤ 0.05, ** p ≤ 0.01, *** p ≤ 0.001