• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.336-349
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• 1996

This dissertation was aimed to analyze correlation between jeans wearing attitude and the use of information sources which influnece the new generation consumers' marketing strategies of jeans industry. Subjects were 443 new generation women living in Seoul. Data were obtained by self administered qestionaire and analyzed by SPSS package. The main findings of this research are as follows : 1. A result of factor-analysis of the new generation consumers' jeans wearing attitudes variables were typed 5 factors of practicality pursuit, fashion pursuit, sexual attraction pursuit, individuality pursuit and famous brand pursuit. 2. A result of factor-analysis of the use of information sources variables were classified 4 factors of marketer-dominted sources, neutral sources, consumer.dominated sources and personal sources. 3. In anlysis between jeans wearing attitudes and demographic characteristics, fashion pursuit, individuality pursuit and sexual attraction pursuit showed significant difference partially 4. In analysis between the use of information sources and demographic characteristics, marketer-dominated, neutral and personal sources showed significant difference partially. 5. In correlation and regression between jeans wearing attitude and the use of information sources, there were high relations partially and fashion pursuit variable of jeans wearing attitude was the most influential.

• Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.65-76
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of conspicuous consumption on wearing attitude of jeans and analyze the difference of purchasing behavior in jeans by gender. Questionnaires were administered to 386 college students living in Deagu and Busan province. Frequency, factor analysis, reliability analysis, regression analysis, t-test, and $X^2$-test were used for data analysis. Conspicuous consumption were categorized into 5 factors such as famous brand preference, brand conspicuous, fashion pursuit, symbol of social position, and imported goods pursuit. Wearing attitude of jeans was categorized into fashion information leadership, fashion innovation, and pursuit of economic. The result of this study showed brand conspicuous, fashion pursuit, symbol of social position, and imported goods pursuit had significant effect of fashion information leadership and brand conspicuous, fashion pursuit, and imported goods pursuit had significant effect of fashion innovation. Brand conspicuous, and symbol of social position had significant effect of pursuit of economic. The indicates that men showed high brand conspicuous of conspicuous consumption and fashion innovation of wearing attitude of jeans. Gender of college students showed significant differences in purchasing place, purchasing price.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.43
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• pp.109-124
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• 1999

This study was aimed to analyze consumer's wearing attitude and the purchase behavior of jeans and the jean manufacturer's marketing strategies. Subjects were 448 male and female in their teens twenties and thirties living in Seoul. Data were obtained by self-administered questions and analyzed by SAS package. The main findings of this research are as follows: factors of fashion pursuit famous brand pursuit sexual attraction pursuit practicality pursuit. 2. In analysis between jeans wearing attitude type of information source purchase behavior and demographic characteristics showed signicficant difference partially. 3. The most influential design of jeans purchase was a fitting factor. The consumers preferred low price shops in downtown and colledge area and department store because of it's variety of jean goods. So the market segmentation and the brand positioning method according to consumers' wearing attitude and purchase behavior should be concerned properly in maketing strategy design include product and advertising strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.990-1001
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of perceiver's gender, clothing, and hairstyle on the visual evaluation of men's professionalism and preference. A quasi-experimental method by questionnaire was used. The experimental design was a $2\times8\times2$ (perceiver's gender $\times$ clothing $\times$ hairstyle) factorial design by 3 independent variables. The stimuli were 16 photographs of a man in his twenties. The upper clothing of the man included tailored collar jackets in beige and dark blue colors, and jumpers and sweaters in beige, dark blue, and red colors. The lower clothing of the men included jean pants. Two types of the hairstyles included short hair and medium length hair. The subjects were 208 men and 223 women in Seoul, Korea. Wearing a beige sweater with jean pants was evaluated high in intellectual image, a red jumper was perceived low in intellectual image, and a beige tailored collar jacket was evaluated low in potent image. Men's short hairstyle was evaluated to be more professional than the medium length hair. Male perceivers liked short hair more than medium length hair, but female perceivers evaluated both hairstyles similarly. In the case of women, the preferences of tailored collared jacket and soutien collared jumper were similar, but jumper was preferred to jacket in the case of men. Male perceivers showed more positive feedback towards jean pants with soutien collared jumper than jeans with tailored collared jacket, which indicated that men showed more conservative attitude towards the outfit than women. The man who was wearing a jumper with short hair was evaluated positively and the man who was wearing a jacket with medium length hair was evaluated negatively when the attires were coordinated with jean pants. In conclusion, medium length hairstyle with a beige jacket and short hairstyle with a red sweater were evaluated as professional image; and the results indicated that clothing and hairstyle interact with each other and influence the evaluation of professionalism.