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The body armor for military personnel should provide a balance of protection and comfort. For both men and women, if body armor does not fit correctly and provide adequate coverage, it can adversely affect the safety and effectiveness. The design and manufacture of the body armor for female officers can present issues of particular concern. For now, Romania's female soldiers don't have any other choice than to wear men's body armor of smaller sizes, even though their body shape is different. For many women, that means wearing a standard issue vest that is tight across the torso and too loose around the middle can cause discomfort and offers less protection. The aim of the project was to develop a new protective bullet proof vest that is manufactured taking into account the female body shape, that provides comfort, mobility and adjustment possibilities, while superior ballistic resistance properties will be similar to the existing body armors. For morphological characterization of the target group, the women recruited in the national defense system, it was made an anthropometric survey using 3D scanning technology the human body in order to provide the necessary body size database to design the ballistic body armor. From primary anthropometric data we extracted the body dimensions required in designing the protective bullet proof vests. The novelty in the body armor design consist in taking into account the shape and cup size of Romanian female body. For the determination of the cup size we selected these critical dimensions: bust and under-bust circumferences.

The competitive pressure of globalization is causing textile and garment manufacturers to lower production costs,increase their efficiency and to create leaner value-adding processes. To be able to cope with these changes, measuresmust be implemented, including the improvement of the internal organization, and the establishment of co-operationswith external organizations to create a continuous supply-demand network.The current paper presents the innovative concept for personalized pattern design of safety equipment applied withinSC MATEI CONF GRUP SRL, highlighting the importance of personalization and its competitive advantages, from theidea to the prototype or product and testing it.The research implementation used 3D body scanning for analysis and determination of anthropometric measurementsand conformation, 3D CAD technology for automatic rapid design of patterns in Made to Measure system, modelling andsimulation of product in the virtual environment on customized mannequin highlighting the body-productcorrespondence.

The goal of the research presented in this article is to investigate the applicability of the CASP (Curvature, Acceleration, Symmetry, Proportionality) methodology for adapted garments’ pattern design for real cases of adults and teenagers with spine deformity. The current research is the result of a collaborative work of Slovenian and Romanian research teams with common expertise and background. The results obtained by applying CASP methodology on theoretical case studies showed that this methodology could be adequate for assuring the appropriate garment pattern designs for real persons with kyphosis. In this research, the design stages of adapted garments for adults and teenagers with spine deformity were presented by using the CASP evaluation of the back and virtual prototyping of garments. The results of the study confirmed that reconstruction process of the basic shirt/blouse pattern design improved the appearance and fit of the product to the body with spine deformity. Also, this paper brings contributions to garment design technology by 3D scanning and virtual try-on, taking into account the body shapes of the users.