A Study on Life Style Types and Clothing Evaluative Criteria

생활양식유형과 의복평가기준에 관한 연구

The main objective of this study was to find out the relationship between life style types and clothing evaluatie criteriria. Social wear was selected according to the defined time, place, and occasion's. The questionnaire was administered to 640 housewives during the fall of 1988. The research problems were as follows: 1. To segment the target according to their life styles, and to profile the characteristics of the categorized life style types. 2. To determine the differences in the clothing evaluatie criteria among the various life style types. The result were as follows: 1. Five life style types were defined. They were the Achievement oriented type, the Active- leisure type, the Material oriented type, Conservative-frugal type, and the Passive-stagnant type. 2. The differences in consumer preferences at the element level evaluative criteria including color, fiber content, fabric construction, fabric design, and classes of clothes among the five life style types were also analyzed revealing partial significance.