Abstract
In order to determine the standardized size of clothing that will fit various body types, measurements were taken on 1591 males and females including children and grownups in 1966 and 1967, and they were compared with the nation-wide data. The following results were obtained.
1. A difference between both sexes appears in the year when the increase of stature shows its peak : with boys, the peak is observed in the 12th and 13th years and with girls, in one or two years earlier than that. The age when girls' body-measurements are superior to boys' is 12 in Kagoshima ; on the contrary it is 10 according to the nation-wide data. There is two-year difference. This suggests that the girl examinees of our present study in Kagoshima would reach the adolescence a little later than the nation's average age.
2. Primary and secondary school boys and girls in Kagoshima are slightly smaller than the nation's average children.
3. No remarkable peculiarity is observed in the body types obtained by combining the measurements of stature, sleeve length, shoulder width, chest girth, waist girth, hip girth, and weight.
