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Comparison of Commercial Bralette's Functions through Trial Wearing Experiments

착용실험을 통한 시판 브라렛의 기능 비교

  • Kim, Seungyeon (Dept. Fashion design, Hansae MK) ;
  • Yang, Yerin (Dept. online fashion MD, Brandi) ;
  • Jung, Jinoe (Dept. of Fashion Design Information, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Han, Hyunsook (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2021.06.30
  • Accepted : 2021.10.29
  • Published : 2021.10.31
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Abstract

This study was intended to compare the comfort of wearing each type of commercially available bralette. The trial wearing experiment was conducted on five women in their 20s who wear an average Korean bra size of 70A. The experimental bralettes were of four types: a bralette with both hooks and pads and a bralette without both, a bralette with hooks but no pads, and a bralette with pads but no hooks. The wearing test results are as follows. First, in terms of functional satisfaction, the padded bralette provided the greatest satisfaction in supporting the chest from the bottom up and bringing it to the center, and the bralette without the pad provided the least satisfaction. In addition, the level of convenience of attaching/detaching was about twice as high in the bralette with hooks than those without hooks. Chest compression was found to be greater in bralettes without hooks than in those with hooks. In terms of the pressure on the shoulder strap and on the lower chest band, it was found that bralettes with hooks had a greater sense of pressure than those without. In the appearance characteristics test, the unpadded bralettes scored higher than the padded one in the matter of feeling embarrassed, because in unpadded bralettes, the nipples were exposed underneath the clothes . This study is meaningful in classifying the design of the bralette and evaluating the fit for each design in the absence of prior research on the bralette.

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