A Series of Studies on Trouser Forms(I)

바지고(I) -바지 형태에 대한 소고-

Pants are one of the most complicated clothing items in the sense that they cover the most active part of human body. The technical and conceptual treatment of the required ease in the crotch area shows interesting variations throughout the global folk costumes. This study here, as an attempt to find out any standard or a good frame of reference to be used to describe the characteristic features of our pants, and/or to compare out pants with nearby folk costumes, presented some of the Korean scholars' views toward our pants forms, and also introduced Hansen's classification of pants types. Several questions, concerned with the developmental process of a few types of Korean pants, its classification amongst pants of the world, and its similarities and differences in contrast with those of nearby Asian countries are proposed as new problems to be challenged.