A Study on the Problems of Domestic Women Size in the Ready-Made Clothing

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1982;20(1):23-36.

논문편 - 의생활 분야 : 성인여자 기성복의 치수실태에 관한 조사연구

공민희 , 송태옥

A Study on the Problems of Domestic Women Size in the Ready-Made Clothing

Min Hee Gong , Tae Ouk Song

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the problems of consumer and producer in women's ready-made clothing through questionaires, and to solve the problems presented by questionaires. The point at problems of ready-made clothing indicated by the consumer and producer altogether focused on the size. Therefore this study on the size of ready-made clothing was carried out. The size selected for the research materials were producer's size, domestic researchers' measurement size, KS size in the '81, and foreign standard sizes. The results of this study were as follows: 1) As comparing three kinds of size the producers' size(A), domestic researchers' measurement size(B), and KS size(C) it follows that: ① To the same circumference of bust, the waist measurement showed in following order: B＞C＞A, and the hip measurement showed generally in following order: A＞B. ② The extent of bust measurement showed in following order: B＞C＞A. ③ The sort numbers of size showed in following order: C＞B＞A. 2) As Comparing with foreign standard sizes, the sort numbers of our standard size were much less than foreigns as following order: DOB(102)＞JIS(78)＞BS(39)＞PS(29)＞KS(15)FNOR(10). 3) The reasonable size was made by referring to the producer's size, researchers' measurement size, and KS size.