A Tendency of Study on Theory of Impression Formation by Clothing

의복의 인상형성이론에 대한 연구동향

Clothes are a kind of silent language that tells someone who has in wear and has great influence on person perception and impression formation. Present paper aims, therefore, to investigate the tendency of its study to offer information that my assist future studies. Doctorial dissertations, master\`s theses and journal articles related with clothing and textiles in domestic are categorized according to period and subject. Analysed results are as follows: First, as for the periodic vicissitude, the number of study on impression formation was before 1990, but tend to increase in 1990\`s. Second, as for the subject, while the studies focused on impression formation wearer on the first half of 1990\`s, they were segmented and presented wearer\`s form and appearance in detail ; computer simulation was also made use of in various papers. In conclusion, impression formation seems to become a rather important subject for further study.