| Keywords |
Clothing layer ; Clothing insulation ; Wearing frequency ; Underwear (Long johns) ; Season |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to examine Korean women’s wearing conditions in their daily lives, to gainbasic data concerning clothing insulation. We investigated the women’s layering of clothing and actual wear statethrough one-on-one interviews and questionnaires. The respondents were restricted to adult women who lived in Seouland Gyeonggi province (N=825; January 2005~August 2005). The results of this study showed that Korean womenwore, on average, four upper layers and two lower layers outdoors in winter; three upper layers and two lower layersoutdoors in spring; and two upper layers and two lower layers outdoors in summer. The clothing layers showed asignificant difference by season (p<0.05). In home, women wore two upper layers and two lower layers, without anysignificant difference by season. In winter, women who wore a lot outdoors also wore a lot home (r=0.263, p<0.05).Women over 60yrs wore more than young women, in both winter and summer (p<0.05). In winter, the percentage ofwomen wearing long johns (underwear with long sleeves and long legged) outdoors was 7%, and older wore longjohns more often than young women. Outdoors, socks (or stockings) were worn 100% of the time in winter, 90% inspring, and 27% in summer. In home, socks were worn 38%, 21%, and 5% in winter, spring and summer, respectively.In conclusion, season affected the layering of clothing outdoors but not home. Furthermore, the age was a major factoraffecting the layering and type of clothing both outdoors and home. |