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Study on The Wine Mini-bar Design Using Chinese 卍 Shape Window-pattern (중국의 전통 만(卍)자 문창살이 적용된 와인장 디자인 연구)

  • Cai, Quan;Kim, Chung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2017
  • With the rapid economical and technological progress in China, the demand for wine increased tremendously along with the need for wine storage furniture and wine related products. Although demand for furniture increased, consumers' emotional need toward high quality design product has not been met properly. As the quality of people's life improves, they pursue better materials providing them with higher mental satisfaction. To meet the specific demand of Chinese market stated above, the direction of this report is set as to study pattern elements of Chinese traditional lattice and combine them with wine storage furniture design and crafting, which is originated from western culture. By doing that, the study is aimed to suggest a new direction of Chinese modern design and to improve the fundamental notion of Chinese furniture design. Although wine and wine racks are from western world, the wine mini-bar designed in this study stands out for its beauty and taste of eastern culture. It not only fits perfectly to the habits and taste of wine lovers, but also goes very well with fusion style interior design trend in modern China. The furniture carries the charm of eastern cultural tradition and elegance of modern furniture design in one.

The Effects of Preferred Images of School Uniform and Free Clothing on Preferred Images of Hair among High School Girls (여고생의 교복과 자율복 선호이미지가 헤어 선호이미지에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Younghee;Choi, Sookyoung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.32-44
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of preferred images of school uniform and free clothing on preferred images of hair among high school girls. The data were collected between November and December 2014 from 300 high school girls in their's, living in Changwon province. The data have been analyzed by using SPSS program. The methods of factor analysis, reliability analysis, and multiple regression have been adopted for the data analysis. The results of this study are as followings: The factors of preferred images of school uniform consist of six dimensions of attention, neatness, vividness, visibility, practicality, and trend. The factors of preferred images of free clothing consist of six dimensions of neatness, practicality, attention, vividness, visibility, and trend. The factors of preferred images of hair consist of six dimensions of concentration of attention, convenience, elegance, attention, trend, and cuteness. Preferred images of school uniform and free clothing resulted in a correlation with preferred images of hair. Preferred images of school uniform and free clothing had an influence on preferred image of hair. It is highly expected that this study is used as the useful sources of marketing plans of fashion industries targeting high school girls.

The Analysis of Wearers' Impression to Combination of their Body Type with Neutral Tone Wear - focused on Pants- (체형과 무채색 톤조합에 따른 의복 착용자의 인상 평가 -팬츠차림을 중심으로-)

  • Paeng, Suk-Kyung;Kang, Kyung-Ja
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.631-646
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to find out its effect on wearers' impression formated by combination of their body type with neutral tone clothing. The experimental materials developed for this study are a set of responses to stimulus in scales(7-point semantic). 45 pictures used as stimulus are, through computer simulation, manipulated to five wearers' body type and nine neutral tone wear. The subjects are 276(?) female undergraduate students in Kyung-nam area. Factors on wearers' impression suggested as responses to the stimulus consist of 5 different demensions (Tenderness, Cuteness, Attractiveness, Elegance, Intrepidity). The results of this study are as follows: first, combination of their body type with neutral tone wear significantly affects the formation of wearers' impression in the factor of Tenderness, Attractiveness, and Intrepidity (?); to the factor of Attractiveness, wearers' body type is rather more related than wearers' neutral tone wear is. Second, the harmony of their body type with neutral tone wear has a significant effect on wearers' impression in the factor of Cuteness. According to those results, the combination of wearers' body type with neutral tone wear has significant effects on the formation of wearers' impression.

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The Impression Evaluation of the Cloth's Wearer in Relation to Tone Combination and Body Type of Wearer (의복의 톤조합과 착용자의 체형에 따른 인상평가 (제1보))

  • Paeng, Suk-Kyung;Kang, Kyung-Ja
    • Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.1007-1021
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of wearers' body types and clothes' neutral tone combination on impression formation. The experimental materials developed for this study are a set of stimulus and response scales(7-point semantic). The stimulus include 45 pictures manipulated by computer simulation in wears' body types and neutral tone variation. The subjects are 540 female undergraduate students in Gyeong-nam. The results of this study are as follows: Impression factor of the stimulus consisted of 5 different dimensions including tenderness, cuteness, attractiveness, elegance, intrepidity. Each impression of neutral tone combinations, along with wears' body types, had a significant effect on tenderness, attractiveness, and intrepidity. Especially, it had the strongest effects on attractiveness. Each impression of wearers' body types along with neutral tone combinations affected cuteness significantly. According to the fact above, wears' body types and neutral tone combination have a significant influence on the impression formation of wearers.

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A Study on the Dyeing of Ramie Fabric Treated with Medicinal Plants II. The Natural Dyeing On Ramie Fabric Using Artemisiae argyi Herba

  • Seo, Young-Nam
    • Plant Resources
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.161-164
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    • 2002
  • This study was performed to investigate the effect of Artemisiae argyi Herba extract on the treatment of chromaticity and colorfastness. Artemisiae argyi Herba has been used as a Korean medicine. It is effective in removing skin disorders and suppressing pain. It is also good as a fungicide and in treating pruritis. In the long history of Korea, dyeing has been applied for a means representing the grace of natural and inner esthetic consciousness of man. Vegetable dyes give us such great benefits, diversified color; but no pollution. And ramie fabric has distinctive features such as beautiful brilliance, elegance, and strong durability. So, it is regarded as a special product of Korea traditionally. These studies were carried out to treat with acetate iron, dichloride copper and alum with a mordant to ramie fabric. The ramie fabric was died with Artemisiae argyi Herba extract. The results of experiment showed as follows: First, the chromophoric degree was the highest in acetate iron but not distinction in another mordants. Seocond, the light colorfastness was the highest in non treated and dichloride copper, but alum was the lowest. Third, the discoloration was alum and dichloride copper showed first grade in washing colorfastness. Abrasion colorfastness was not significant in this test. According the previous results, Artemisiae argyi Herba has an efficiency in removing skin disorders and suppressing pain. So it is considered that Artemisiae argyi Herba can be applied effectively to theraphy of fungicide and in treating pruritis.

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A study on street fashion by word cloud analysis (Word Cloud 분석을 이용한 스트리트 패션 연구)

  • Lee, Eun-Suk;Kim, Sae-Bom
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.49-62
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to examine women's street fashion based on Instagram by word cloud analysis. This study is divided into items, silhouettes, colors, materials, patterns, and images that appear in women's street fashion. The results of this study are as follows: First, women's fashion-oriented Instagram accounts have a maximum of 8.6 million followers, with 16 blogs have more than one million users. As for the fashion-oriented Instagram visitors, many were their 10s-20s and photography was the key issue. Second, it was found that the casual image, which is the basis of street fashion, romantic, elegance, active sportive image, and sexy images appeared as unique images, and mixed with each other. Third, we compared the fashion characteristics of the top blogs 'fashionnova', 'fashionclimaxx2', and 'fashion.selection'. The blog 'fashionnova', utilizes sexy images and various dresses, and dresses were the characteristic points. The blog 'fashionclimaxx2' features casual images and modern office looks. The blog 'fashoin.selection' has fashion characteristics of both 'fashionnova' and 'fashionclimaxx2'.

Study on purchasing behavior of college students based on benefit segmentation of sneakers (대학생의 운동화 추구혜택 세분화에 따른 구매행동)

  • Cho, A-Reum;Park, Mi-Ryung
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.85-96
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    • 2020
  • The purposes of this study were to segment male and female college students on the basis of sneakers' benefits and purchasing behaviors of each market segment. The research method was conducting a survey of 408 male and female college students in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gwangju and Jeollanam-do province. The data were analyzed by Cronbach's α, factor analysis, cluster analysis, χ2 test, ANOVA, and Duncan test. The results were as follows. First, they were segmented into 4 consumer types(positive benefits, economy/ personality, fashion/famous brand pursuit, and an unconcerned group) by the benefit of sneakers. Second, the evaluation criteria of the products were significantly different depending on each sub-group in terms of the type and quality of material, weight, colors, design, brand, elegance, fashion trend, and coordination. In the case of purchasing information, the sources of sneakers showed significant differences according to the sub-group in all factors except for the past shopping experience. All types of stores and styles were significantly different depending on the sub-group. Therefore, the results of this study supported that benefit segmentation in sneakers can be useful as an effective variable for evaluating market segmentation.

A Study of Advertising Appeal Types and Make-up Images in Cosmetic Advertising (화장품 광고에 표현된 소구형식과 메이크업 이미지에 대한 연구)

  • Yang, Su-Mi
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fashion and Beauty
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    • v.2 no.2 s.2
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study were to find out appeal types and variation of make-up image and make-up style in cosmetics advertising. The research of this study were collected from cosmetics advertisement printed in Amole Pacific Cosmetic industry from $1970{\sim}2004$. The results were as follow: 1. A cosmetics advertisement appeal were three types. it were models and products appeal advertisement as emotional appeal, products-appeal and mixed appeal advertisement. 2. A variation of make-up image were different by the time. In the 1970s make-up were model empersis eye-line and colorful make-up were classic and active make-up image. From the 1980s various color make-up were used and persuited of individuality and started to appeal that were romantic and elegance image. In the 1990s multi-color make-up image were manish and modern used ambivalence and multi-message, and in the $2000{\sim}2004$ natural and romantic-sexy remarkable make-up image were used of new concept of beauty.

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The Characteristics of Costume Color Design in Japanese Heian Period (일본 평안시대의 복식색채의장의 특성)

  • 이경희
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.31
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    • pp.17-31
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    • 1997
  • The Heian Period(794-1192) was the period when luxury and elegance flourished. Gorgeous colors were adopted for the costumes and an el-egant assortment of colors prevailed. Representatiove of such costumes is kasane-no-irome. The world Kasane-no-irome originally came from two colors on both sides of one of the japanese kimonos called Uchiki. In later times it turned to indicate the combination ef-fect of colors of several Uchiki's worn in layers one over the other. This paper describes in de-tail the kasane-no-irome in both meanings. In so doing I distinguish two different kinds of kasane-no-irome using a Chinese character for the formed and for the latter though both are pronounced Kasane in the Japanese language. Part one of this paper which concerns the color combinations of presents typical 148 samples through reproduced dyeing clothes by Matumoto. Part two describes the color com-bination of which was so called Junihitoe. It presents typical 41 samples from reproduced dyeing clothes by Matumoto. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of color distribution and the structure of color combination in Kasane-no-irome. Therefore we obtained the following results in Kasane-no-irome. 1. The color combination of Kasane-no-irome came from the natural color harmony there-fore the names of kasane-no-irome which adopt the names of flowers and leaves of the foure seasons. Accordingly the seasons for wearing them are fixed. 2. In the hue the most frequent appearance was green. And in the tone the most frequent apperance was moderate. 3. In the color combination the most fre-quent type were monochromatic combination and contrast combination.

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An Analysis of Previous Researches on Clothing Image and Make-up Image (의복이미지와 화장이미지에 관한 기존 연구 분석)

  • Lee Hyun-Jung;Kim Mi-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.54 no.7
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    • pp.91-106
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to review the previous researches, analyze the clothing image, the make-up image and compare the analyses of clothing image and make-up image. The previous researches of clothing image and make-up image were reviewed in 6 kinds of Journal. The results of previous research review and analysis were followed as : Measuring mean of image are used to similarly that semantic differential technique and summated rating technique. Attention to proposed researcher abstraction image in make-up image, but there is problem that this hard to explain objectivity of image abstraction. There are a lot of occasions that 4 or 5 image factors were extracted by factor analysis. The make-up image researches that presented image stimulus were more than study that do not present. Image words were classified which were compiled words have similar sub image. Grace, activeness, lively. unique, modernity attractive, feminine. sexy and ripeness clothing images were classified factors. which were representative clothing image. Elegance, Sophisticate. romantic, natural, modern and youthfulness make-up image for factor were representative make-up image factors. However the problems were found that some representative image factor included the sub images which were different from some factor image. Compared with representation image words, same image words were used to not agree what clothing image and make-up image. Standardization of word should be made that show that clothing image and make-up image.