A Survey On Korean Clothing and Textiles in Nineties(1990-1998) - Focused On The Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles and The Journal of the Korean Society of Costume-

90년대(1990-1998)한국의류학 연구의 현황 -한국의류학회지와 한국복식학회지를 중심으로-

The purpose of this study was to investigate trends of subject matter emphasis in clothing and textiles and to show the future directions to cooperate the fashion & textiles business and college. The data were included clothing and textiles related reasarch articles published in two professional jorunals from 1990 through 1998. The identified 1131 articles with clothing and textiles subject-matter emphasis were categorized in six areas: history of costume textiles design and aesthetics social-psychological aspect of clothing fashion merchandising. The results were as follows: 1. The number of each area research was ranked as follows history of costume(231-20.4%) textiles(221-19.5%) design and aesthetics(198-17.5%) social-psychological aspect of clothing(183-16%) fashion merchandising(169-15%) clothing construction(129-11%) 2. In the area of history of costume most of research have been published through Journal of Korean Society of Costume (197 out of 231. 85%). Especially history of korean costume was the most dominant area(154 out of 231.67%) 3. In the area of textiles most of research have been published through Journal of the Korean society of Clothing and Textiles(209 out of 221.95%) 4. Fashion design and aesthetics area was getting increased remarkably(ranking 3) as compared with preceding study(ranking 6) 5. Nineties' research(1990-1998 1131) has been a significant growth in terms of the number of research as compared with preceding study(1977-1989. 346)