The foot shape of school girls and female farm workers in northern Kyushu.

This is an anthropometric study of the foot shape of 23 school girls of Northern Kyushu. They live in Kitakyushu City and its suburbs. Their parents are descendants of people of Fukuoka Prefecture. While there was no significant difference regarding the foot-length among these school girls and the other two groups of farm workers who lived in the rural areas of Northern Kyushu about two decades ago, these school girls had the narrowest feet with the smallest foot-index (a ratio of the foot-breadth to the foot-length) and the tallest stature. These physical features may be considered to be the result of the urban life and the differences of generation.
PMID: 4070886 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]