• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.166-180
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• 2020

This oral history study explores the past and present Japanese menswear custom-tailoring culture. Two master tailors with more than 50 years of experience and two young tailors with less than a year of experience were interviewed about the tailor training process and environment, working conditions, thinking and behavior, and societal and governmental efforts for vitalizing custom-tailoring. The results indicate, first, a 10-year apprenticeship was required in the past, whereas young tailors today must register for three-year professional tailoring classes. Tailors then and now have been trained in a similar sequence of pants, vests, and jackets. Second, regarding working conditions, tailors had to provide gratitude services to their masters for a few years, even after their training ended. In contrast, young tailors today must continue a probationary period after their three-year schooling; however, they experience difficulty with finding tailoring shops for their probation. Third, in terms of thinking and behavior, master tailors learned their trade to earn a living, whereas young tailors today entered the field due to their interests in it. In addition, young tailors want a systematic learning process, whereas master tailors learned their skills while on the job. Last, tailoring academies today are run by tailoring shops and societies. Career exploration programs are offered to elementary and middle school students by the Kobe government in association with the local tailoring society to provide tailoring experiences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.859-862
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• 2015

Recent fashion business, is to promote and make a business strategy to realize a high added value to the first goal. Completion of the best men's clothing is only by making the pattern through a person's body size, making it as the best dressed. In this paper, we propose a system to automate production processes a significant impact on menswear production process, time and cost reduction in order to satisfy the needs of manufacturers and customers. Consequently, it is possible to provide optimal men's clothing by saving a time and expense of customers by, increases the customer's needs and men's clothing demand, it is possible to more easily perform to franchising custom men's clothing manufacturer.