A factor analysis of garment measures of Dutch women.

In 1951 a report was published about a project in which 5,001 Dutch women were measured to provide information for the garment industry (Sittig and Freudenthal, 1951). To provide an opportunity for comparison of these results with the results of a factor analysis by Heath (1952) of some of the measures on American women obtained by O'Brien and Shelton (1941), I factor analyzed the Dutch measures. This paper consists of four parts. First the Dutch study will be described, next a factor analysis of the Dutch results will be described, in the third part the American study will be summarized and finally the two factor analyses will be co~pared.