Study on clothing store selection and relevant factors - Views on clothing lifestyle and store image -

의류점포선택과 관련변인 연구 - 의생활양식과 점포이미지를 중심으로 -

  • Jeong, Bok Hee (Dept. of Clothing and Textile Graduate School, Dong-A University) ;
  • Park, Eun Joo (Dept. of Clothing and Textile Graduate School, Dong-A University)
  • Received : 1992.12.01
  • Published : 1993.05.01

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to identify the components of store image of women's clothing and to explain the relationships between store images and selection behaviors. Data were obtained from 330 females who college women and office girls in Busan. Its were analyzed by factor analysis, cannonical correlation, regression analysis and discriminant analysis. The results of this study were as follows ; 1. Dimensions of the clothing lifestyle were classified individuality-seeking, information-seeking, comfort-seeking and quality-seeking. 2. Store image factors of women's clothing were identified quality, design, information service, atmosphere and convenience. The types of preference store were the general public store, the public high class store and general obscure store. 3. It appears that designs is the factors to make store image of individuality-seeking, information-seeking and comfort-seeking and information service is the one to make store image of quality-seeking. Also they were usually purchased in the general public store by individality-seeking consumers and comfort-seeking consumers and purchased in the public high class store by information-seeking consumers and quality-seeking consumers. The store images, espacially the information service image, was contributed to the store selection behaviovs more than lifestyle. But lifestyle, espacially the comfort-seeking consumers, was contributed to the store behavior of the three types of store more than store image.

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