Abstract
Six pregnant women were measured using Martin's anthropometric instrument on 44 items at each 4 weeks from 12th to 36th week of pregnancy to obtain basic data for designing of pregnant women's garment. Sillouetter photographs were also taken to observe the characteristics of body form changes.
The results were summarized as follows.
1. The items which showed a remarkable and significant increase were frontal waist height, crotch height, bust girth, waist girth, abdominal girth, hip girth, bust width, spina iliac width, waist depth, abdominal depth and body weight.
2. These changes of pregnant women's measurements seem to be due to following three factors : 1) growth of fetus, 2) augmentation of corpulency, and 3) change in posture of pregnant women themselves.
