MERCHANDISE SELECTION SYSTEM FOR STOCKINGS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable quick selection without being accompanied by discomfort or other nasty feelings by calculating the sizes of body parts of a person to be measured from a projection data of a human body to select stockings of fitting sizes based on the results. SOLUTION: A selecting person stands on a pair of foot-shaped fixing devices 20a and 20a of a rotary plate 20 facing a line connecting a projector 32 and a photodetector 34. Then, when an operator depresses a measurement start switch 72 to start a measurement, a sensor 30 for projection moves along opening parts 29a and 29b and performs a scanning from the side of the selecting person to accumulate projection data of body parts into a buffer. Then, the rotary plate 20 is rotated to change the direction of the selecting person by 90 and a projection data is obtained by repeating the same operation. The data thus obtained are processed by a central processing part of a selection processing section to select stockings or the like, thereby enabling quick selection without being accompanied by discomfort or other nasty feelings.