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With a view of planning garments, a longitudinal study on adult female physical-types was made. The materials are 90 original measurement cards which were investigated in 1951, '53, '64 and the measurements which were obtained by the longitudinal study in 1973. The variations of physical-types after about 20 years (group A) and after about 10 years (group B) were observed. Measuring items consist of 7 lengths, 6 widths, 10 circumferences and weight, totaling 24 items.
The main results are as follows;
1) The range of each individual increase or decrease of each item in groups A and B is narrow on items of length and wide on items of width and circumference.
2) C. V. of items of circumference and width are much greater at this time than at the last time. And the differences among individuals become large with their years.
3) There are many women whose cross sections of trunk become rounded out as they grow older, but waist cross sections of 18% of group A and 15% of group B become flat.
