Anthropometric Sizing: A Guide to Radically Inclusive Sizing
JUMPSUIT is an ungendered garment. Unlike unisex garments (which has historically meant a larger size that “fits”
many people) JUMPSUIT embraces the differences between individuals while maintaining the visual oneness of the collective!
Current models of industrial manufacturing limit the range of available sizes, thereby reducing our bodies to
interchangeable units; a size small for example, or an extra large. Anyone who has ever shopped for a pair of
jeans, however, can identify with the alienating feeling of inhabiting an unruly or non-compliant
body. The Rational Dress Society asks a different question: What if our clothing
accepted our bodies as they are? How would a utopian garment fit?
In order to achieve the visual uniformity fundamental to
JUMPSUIT an entirely new approach needed to be developed.
Using anthropometric data from sources as
varied as uniform companies and NASA,
the Rational Dress Society created a
fundamentally new, radically inclusive sizing
system based on three base body types.
V which skews larger at the chest, I which
has an even proportion between the hip and
chest, and A which skews broader at the
hip. To each of these body types bust darts
may be added to accommodate breasts.
Spanning a wide range of heights, the resulting
monogarment comes in 248 unique sizes. (High five!)