Retail Sizing Projects

In 1996, Select were commissioned by NEXT, one of the UK’s largest clothing retailers to undertake the first ever large scale project using new 3D technology to measure the human body.

Between 1997 and 2000, Select Research managed four large sizing projects for M&S, at the time the largest clothing retailer in the UK ...

Between 2001 and 2004, Select Research were commissioned to manage the first-ever national sizing survey to use 3D scanning technology ...

The development of the Body Volume Index, or BVI, commenced in 2007 as a new alternative obesity measurement to the Body Mass Index (BMI) ...

Between 2008 and 2010, Select Research Ltd set up and managed the first-ever children’s survey using 3D technology...

Select were approached by Lycra to collaborate with them on a possible new sizing solution for hosiery fit.

Select received confirmation of UK Government funding in 2017 to conduct a national sizing survey. The purpose was, given changes in people’s body shapes, to update the data on adults collected for retailers on SizeUK in 2001.