• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.1075-1085
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• 1999

Brand equity is the added value endowed by the brand to the product. This concept born in the 1980's has aroused intense interest among market managers and business strategists from a wide variety of industries. Brand equity can be approached in different perspectives according to the motivations and the objectives of the studies. Consumer-based brand equity is examined internally by consumers' cognition and feeling and externally by consume behavior in the market By analyzing the relationship between them we can understand how brand value is made in the mind of consumers and how it is converted into the consumer behavior,. The brand is an especially important extrinsic cue in clothing products and the apparel industry has higher brand equity when it is actually compared with the brand equity of many other industries measured as a financial asset. Therefore the purpose of this study was to find out brand value of clothing products through clothing brand equity and to understand consumer behavior of the brand. And so we focused in consumer-based brand equity. For the empirical study three brands that are predicted to have different level of brand equity were selected based on prices and market shares of the brands. As the result the consumer-based brand equity is composed of emotional and cognitive dimensions and each dimension has several sub-dimensions. These diverse dimensions of brand equity bring about differences in consumers' purchase behavior market share and price premium of brands.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.109-118
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• 1999

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of clothing shopping orientations on consumers emotions in clothing stores based on level of clothing involvement. For this purpose, factor analysis was used to identify shopper types by clothing shopping orientation and factors of consumers' emotions and multiple regression analysis was used in each level of upper 25% and lower 25% of clothing involvement to find out the effects of clothing shopping orientations on consumers' emotions. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; 1. 4 factors were found in clothing involvement. 2. 6 factors were found in clothing shopping orientations but 'recreational shopping orientation' 'economic shopping orientation' of high loading factors were used for multiple regression analysis, 3. 4 factors were found in consumers' emotions but 'pleasure' arousal' 'enervation' were selected for multiple regression analysis. 4. In the upper 25% group of clothing involvement level; it is founded that 'recreational shopping orientation' influenced 'pleasure' and 'economic shopping orientation' did not influence 'pleasure'; it is founded that 'recreational shopping orientation' influenced 'arousal' and 'economic shopping orientation' did not influence 'arousal'; 'recreational shopping orientation' and 'economic shopping orientation' did not influence 'enervation'. 5, In the lower 25% group of clothing involvement level; it is founded that 'recreational shopping orientation' and 'economic shopping orientation' influenced 'pleasure' and did not influence 'arousal'; it is founded that only 'economic shopping orientation' influenced 'enervation' negatively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.1091-1099
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• 2001

Evaluation on jean products were varied although they were the identical jeans. Therefore, we could confirm the bias by price. brand, and store when consumer evaluating jean products. The various consumer characteristics also provided effects evaluation on jean products. An evaluation on jean products is very subjective and the degrees depending on these three cues could be varied by consumer's characteristics. For empirical study, experiments by the subjects among students of ewha womans university were done by using jeans as stimulus. Data was collected by a questionnaire made up by a researcher based on the theoretical and pretest. Data was analyzed by ANOVA, factor analysis, grouping analysis, F-test, and etc. 571 data were analysed out of the 600 data. Cues such as price, brand, and store affected significantly the evaluation of jeans. The most important cue of all three was store, then price, and then brand. These three cues affected the evaluation of jean products separately and together. The result of the study was that the consumers characteristics mediated the effects of extrinsic cues like price, brand, and store on jean products evaluation. Consumer's characteristics like prior knowledge and shopping orientation mediated the effects of price, and store cue on jean products evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.1112-1120
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• 2004

The visual environment of the store is a very important factor to attract consumers into the store and make consumers purchase products. Therefore retailers should have concerns about store environments to differentiate their stores from other stores. Thus this study focused on visual environment of the store influencing consumer behavior. The concrete purpose of this study was to identify preferences of store environments and store types by consumer traits. First, the store choice criteria factors were examined and through the cluster analysis, several consumer groups were constructed. And then the visual environment factors of the store that consumers perceived important were identified and the visual environment factors of the store preferred by consumer groups were examined. Finally, store types preferred by consumer groups were examined. The findings of this study can assist store designers and retailers to set up a store environment or visual marketing strategies.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.154-168
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• 2019

The present study investigated fashion Instagram marketing, applying the concept of gamification. It set out to examine the following specific issues: 1) perceptions of flow, pleasures, dimensions of game dynamics (challenge, competition, achievement, reward, relationships among participants, and relationships between brands and consumers), and consumer responses based on frequency and involvement in exercise; 2) the effects of game dynamics dimensions on flow and pleasure; and 3) the effects of flow and pleasure on consumer responses. An online survey was used to gather data and the study analyzed a total of 200 responses. The results of the study were as follows. Perception differences were found only in relation to exercise involvement. Competition, relationships among participants, and relationships between brands and customers positively predicted flow. Among the dimensions of game dynamics, challenge, competition, reward, relationships among participants, and relationships between brands and consumers positively influenced pleasure. In addition, the study also found that pleasure and flow had positive effects on intention to participate and brand loyalty. Meanwhile, only pleasure predicted word-of-mouth. These findings suggest that fashion brands implementing Instagram as a marketing channel should seek to stimulate pleasure and fun to provoke positive consumer responses. Furthermore, the findings of the study provide practical and useful insights for fashion brands implementing Instagram marketing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.962-976
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• 2018

This study examined: 1) the influence of 3 social presence types including shopping companions, other consumers, and sales associates on the consumer's purchase decision at a retail store; 2) the difference in the influence by shopping situation involving shopping together or shopping alone; and 3) the differences by consumer susceptibility to social influence and self-confidence. The study conducted three experiments with the retail shopping scenario manipulating consumer's positive self-evaluation, but lack of confidence after trying on a clothing product. Experiment 1 and Experiment 2 examined the positive influence of social presence while Experiment 3 examined the negative influence. The results showed that the positive comment of a shopping companion had the highest influence on the purchase decision. Such impact was more observable under the low susceptibility to normative influence. The negative comments of sales associate and shopping companion lowered the purchase decision. There was no difference by shopping situation. The results imply that influences of social presence on the consumer's purchase decision are different by positive or negative comments and such influences are not different by shopping situation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.543-553
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions of beauty service benefit and to examine the effect of beauty service benefit on consumer's long-term relationship through consumer satisfaction. Beauty service benefit consists of three dimensions: emotional benefit, technical benefit and functional benefit. The aforementioned three dimensions of beauty service benefits have positive effects on consumer satisfaction. The effort of relationship continuity was a moderating variable among beauty service benefits, consumer satisfaction, and long-term relationship orientation. The findings of this study are expected to be used for developing and applying the program of consumer relationship management.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.89-99
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• 1998

The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of consumers' values as appeared in advertisements. Advertisements in men's magazine from 1976 to 1996 were classified by VALSI program. The results were as follows. 1. There was a significant trend that advertisements with outer-directed value decreased while the ones with inner-directed value increased. 2. In case of outer-directed group appeared in advertisements, There was a tendency that the hierarchy of needs shifted from emulators to achievers. However, the shift in hierarchy of needs in inner-directed group was not significant. 3. Even though the advertisements with material value were predominant, there was a tendency that the advertisement with material value decreased while the ones with human value increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.9_10 s.157
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• pp.1445-1454
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of consumer-brand relationship on purchasing attitudes toward counterfeits. 341 female college students who had purchased fashion luxury brand products were surveyed. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, pearson's correlations, ANOVA, and multiple regression were used. As the results, consumer-brand relationship was classified into three factors; commitment relationship, trust relationship, and emotion relationship. Also, higher consumer-brand relationship was correlated with higher preference and satisfaction, and lower purchasing attitudes toward counterfeits. Also, among the three groups(heavy/middle/low) of consumer-brand relationship, the heavy group had higher preference and satisfaction, and lower purchasing attitudes toward counterfeits. Also, results revealed that 'commitment relationship' and 'emotional relationship' accounted for 32% of the explained variance in 'favorableness', while 'trust relationship' and 'emotional relationship' accounted for 26% and 29% of the explained variance in 'trust toward product quality'. Based on these results, fashion luxury brand marketing strategy would be suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.1050-1060
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• 2009

This study develops a scale for consumer clothing satisfaction based on Lee et al. 's (2002) five stages of the consumer life cycle (acquisition, possession, consumption, maintenance, and disposal). Data were gathered by surveying college students using convenience sampling, and 419 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. In analyzing the data, an exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis using a structural equation modeling were conducted. The proposed scale, which identified various sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction associated with the 5 consumption cycles of clothing, suggests some guidelines for marketers in enhancing consumer clothing satisfaction across consumption stages. The model test for the scale also identified that consumption satisfaction had the greatest effect on consumer clothing satisfaction showing the strongest loading and squared multiple correlation.