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Wearing Practices and Consumer Needs for Stockings  

권수애 (충북대학교 패션디자인정보학과)
최종명 (충북대학교 패션디자인정보학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles / v.28, no.3_4, 2004 , pp. 403-413 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate to wearing practices and consumer needs for stockings. 503 subjects were surveyed in 2002. Data were analyzed by frequency, $\chi$$^2$, ANONA(LSD) and factor analysis. The results were as follows; 1) Many subjects considered the colors, but a very few of them considered the components and handling signs when purchase their stockings. These tendencies show meaningful differences according to their ages, jobs and the status of whether they are married or single. The wearing rates of stockings show differences according to their physical characteristics and social demographical variables. 2) They demand that the exact fiber contents and the mixture ratios which the stockings have should be indicated, and also want the sizes of the stockings to be indicated by three steps according to their body sizes, and they ask that the stockings have more various colors. They required that the stockings should have good ventilation, durability, warmth-keeping, hygroscopicity and elasticity in leg parts, and anti static electricity or bacteria.
Keywords
Stocking; Wearing practices; Size; Label; Consumer needs;
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