Age Changes in the Length Measurements of the Body Relative to the Size of Clothing

On Primary and Secondary School children

Abstract

From the viewpoit of the study of clothing construction, we have investigated on five items of length measurement of the body (stature, lower limb length, sleeve length, posterior shoulder width, foot length).
The results obtained are summarized as follows :
Mean values of all five items increase gradually in advanced age. T he greatest yearly growth appears in boys between the 1st year and the 2nd year of secondary school, and in girls between the 4th year and the 5th year of primary school. The standard deviations also show their maximum values in these age groups. In girls, the growth rate becomes little after the 1st year of secondary school, and by the 3rd year of secondary school, the mean values of three measurements, i. e., lower limb length, posterior shoulder width foot length, approximately reach to those of the adult females.