Comparison of Sense of Impropriety for Clothes between Japanese and Korean Women

Abstract

In a series of preceding research of "Experimental Study concerning Sense of Impropriety for Clothes in each Aggregation of People by Dolls Model", we discussed about "Sense of Impropriety" of clothes for Japanese women. In this report, we examined women in South Korea in this sense, compared with the Japanese case. As to the experiment method, using "Kimono" , "Hanbok", "Navy-blue Suit" and "Jeans", and we executed the sensory evaluation experiment about "Sense of Impropriety" that felt in the aggregation composed by the model of dolls as well as previous section of this report. As a result, there was this sense even in the South Koreans in the same way as the Japanese But, the degree of this sense of the South Koreans' was about 80% of the Japanese. As its reason, we guessed that the image of the clothes used for the sample was different with the South Koreans and the Japanese. But, the consciousness of "Sense of Tradition" of the South Koreans was high about the ethnic costume, therefore the difference of the Japanese evaluation of "Sense of Impropriety" was small