In designing garments, it is necessary to grasp correctly the measurements of the parts of the bodies of the wearers, their physical development and the characteristics of body types. For the purpose of obtaining basic data which will satisfy the above requirement, we took body measurement in 1980 of 632 infant boys and girls aged between 3 months and 3 years 6 months. The present paper reports the results of our examination into the data with special reference to girls.
1. Infant girls showed a remarkable growth in every part of their bodies. The growth was particularly remarkable in weight, length and width items.
2. Zero year old infants showed a remarkable increase in almost all the items. The defference was significant at 1.5%.
3. Girls of 3-6 months old showed approximately the same measurements of 40-41 cm in head girth, abdominal extension girth and hip girth. Girls of 3 years old, however, showed a slightly different tendency: hip girth was the largest (51.7 cm), then came breast girth, head girthand abdominal extension girth in descendig order.
4. As age increased, the ratios to stature increased in hip-bone height, crotch length and cervicale height, and decreased in the width and girth items. Not much difference was seen in arm length and foot length.
5. Infants have a body type with large head girth, abdnominal extension girth and hip girth, and with short lower limbs as compared with stature. Little difference was seen among breast girth, abdominal extension girth and hip girth, which shows infants have cyrindrical bodies.