• Applied Microscopy
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.265-273
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• 2008

본 연구는 국내에 거주하는 흑인종, 백인종, 황인종 여성의 모발을 채취하여 전자현미경으로 모발의 미세구조적 차이를 규명하였다. 흑인종 모발의 횡단면은 납작한 타원형의 형태를 하고 있었으며 황인종과 백인종 모발은 각각 원형과 타원형의 형태를 하고 있었다. 흑인종 모발은 두께가 $90{\sim}115{\mu}m$로 굵기가 일정하지 않았다. 황인종모발은 두께가 $100{\mu}m$이었으며 백인종 모발은 두께가 $80{\mu}m$로 측정되었다. 모발의 두께는 황인종 모발이 백인종 모발보다 크게 나타났다. 흑인종 모발은 황인종과 백인종 모발 보다 큐티클층이 많이 손상되어 있었다. 특히 큐티클세포의 내큐티클에는 많은 구멍들이 형성되어 있어서 쉽게 부서지는 특성이 나타났다. 백인종 모발의 피질에 있는 페오멜라닌은 내부에 동심원상의 나선구조를 하고 있었다.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.285-300
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• 2017

This study analyzes the images of models in womenswear advertisements targeting women in their fifties. The goals of this study are: 1) to investigate beauty ideals for middle-aged women by analyzing models' look age, chronological age, wrinkles, gray hair, hair length, body type, and race; and 2) to explore how ageing is dealt with in advertisements by analyzing the range of bodies shown in advertisements, the color mode of photographs, and the clarity of models' figures in relation to models' look ages. A total of 155 printed advertisements from January 2012 to January 2017 from the brands Daks Ladies, Lebeige, Luciano Choi, PAT, and Zishen were selected for analysis. Womenswear brands targeting middle-aged women reinforce cultural ideals of female beauty that emphasize youth and slenderness. They do this by using thin and slender models, who most often appear to be in their twenties and thirties, and have hair longer than their shoulders. Brands with higher price ranges show a preference for Caucasian models, which reveals that a Caucasian identity is associated with sophistication. In addition, the bodies of models who appear to be in their forties and fifties were concealed by framing photographs mostly above the knees. Older models' features were also obscured via the use of black and white photography, strong lighting and contrast, and digital editing that blurred the boundaries between figures and their backgrounds. These decisions for how to represent models could result in negative self-esteem and a denial of the symptoms of ageing among middle-aged women.