Abstract
Twelve items of a body which are closely related with the clothes-measurements were investigated on 900 children, from the first year primary school boys and girls to the third year secondary school boys and girls inclusive, in Nara City.
The work has yielded the following results :
1. The mean value of the measurement of each item gradually increases with age. For both boys and girls the greatest increase among length items is obtained with the, whole length and among girth items the hip. The item which shows the least increase is the head girth.
2. The greatest yearly increase in measurements of boys is shown between the first and the second years of secondary school and that of girls between the fifth and the sixth years of primary school, that is one or two years earlier than their menarche.
