Abstract
From the viewpoint of the clothing construction, we measured the girls, living in Tokyo City (A) and in a village in Nagano Prefecture (B), over three years as they grew from 6 years old to 8 years old. The measured items are stature, lower limb length foot length and head length. The results obtained are summarized as follows :
1) For all ages A are remarkably bigger than B in all measurements, but there is little difference between growth rates of both groups.
2) In A the curves of the individual growth gather around the average curve while in B they gather in somewhere lower than the center of the distribution.
3) We have classified stature and lower limb length into three groups (large, medium and small) on the basis of the stature of 6-year-old girls. There is little difference between the growth rates of these three groups.
