The characteristics of the aged women's arm are examined to find out how to draw the flat pattern of the sleeve. The variations of the form of the arm have been studied by a replica and moir'e topography on the 41 women subjects ranging in age from 62 to 80 years old. 52 young women of 20 to 21 years old have also been investigated for comparison.
The results are as follows:
1) The armscy line curves of the young women show a symmetry between the back and front.But the armscy line curves of the aged women do not show a symmetry because of their protruding humerus.The aged women's armpit axilla is 12mm longer than that of the young women.
2) The cross section of the upper arm in the back armscye point of the aged women is expanded in the back.
3) The upper arm of the aged women is rendered oblique more backward and their forearm inclines more forward than that of the young women.

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The application of flame retardant finish to cotton/polyester fabrics has not been successfully achieved so far because of the combination of two different kinds of fibers having opposite properties, hydrophilic and hydrophobic. The authors paid the attention to this point and attempted to investigate flame retardant finishes for cotton/polyester blended fabrics with the following processes.
1. THPS, a flame retardant, effective for cellulosic fibers as mentioned in our previous reports, was applied under the altered conditions in which concentration, additives and heating condition were varied.
2. Proban finish effective for cellulosic fibers was applied in combination with hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) effective for polyester with some additives under 12 different conditions.
3. Nonnen C-617, a flame retardant developed for cotton/polyester blended fabrics were used under 13 varied conditions with different kinds of additives.
As a result of observing LOI values, tensile strength and elongation as well as the durability against 25 repetitions of washing for the evaluation of the finished fabrics, it was concluded that a sample treated with 60% Nonnen C-617 showed the most favorable results, but further investigations are still required for an improvement of the flame retardancy, which will be reported in the subsequent paper.

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