Abstract
Somatometric studies on infants aged from 4 to 6 were carried out. From the obtained data, the form of the trunk part of infants was elucidated with the purpose of obtaining the basis of construction of infant clothing. The cross sections were obtained based on each correlation between “width and depth”, “width and girth” and “girth and width-depth index” of the bust, abdomen and hip.
Both bust girth and hip girth were longer than the circumference of an ellipse equivalent of these girths in the width-depth index.
The form of the trunk apparently showed the dependence on sex. Hip girth of sixty-three per cent of female subjects was larger than that of male subjects and also their own bust girth.
Bust width and hip width were equal in fifty per cent of all examined boys, and the width was two centimeter greater than the abdomen width.
