A Research on the Suit Wearing Conditions for Korean Adult Men

성인(成人) 남성(男性)의 신사복(紳士服) 착용(着用) 실태(實態) 조사(調査)

The purpose of this research is to offer basic data for the study of men's suit by investigating the wearing conditions of men’s suit. For data collection, a questionnaire was composed of the number of times and the reason of wearing the suit and the number of suits they possessed etc. The subjects were male who aged 25-39 and resided in Seoul, kyunggi and Chungnam region. The results of the research are summarized as the following : 1. The mean age of wearing the suit for the first time is 22.3 years old. 2. A number of times of suit wearing for a week is less than 2 days mostly. In the case of job, office men is wearing suit many times more than others. Most of the adult men is wearing the suit as a ceremonial costume. 3. As a general rule, men have about 1.5 business suits for spring/fall/winter, and few character suit.. Korean adult men like character suit more than business suit. Also their favorite suit brand is Gallaxy and Intermezo.