• 복식
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.70-83
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• 2014

This study was done to provide the basic data for improving the sizing system for infants and children's clothing. The 97 brands were surveyed through market research and on-line searching. Size and body measurements were analyzed according to the content of nominal size, type of market, national and foreign brands, and meaning of reference size. The results are as follows: 1. The meaning of nominal sizes was categorized as five cases: the size based on body measurements, the size based on age, the meaningless size, letter cord and combination of 2 out of 4 cases above. The nominal size based on height was most observed, and the meaningless nominal size was second. The meaningless nominal size can cause confusion when consumer buys clothing. 2. The department stores mainly used the nominal size based on body measurements, but the Internet shopping malls largely used the meaningless nominal size. 3. Both national brands and foreign brands mainly used the nominal size based on height. But national brands largely used the different nominal sizes. 4. 41 brands indicated body measurements as reference size and 26 brands indicated product measurements as reference size. Therefore consumers tended to confuse the body measurements with the product measurement.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.137-151
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• 2007

This study was performed to narrow down the Sizing System for Female Adult's garments(KS K 0051) following age target and body shapes. The study was based on the sizing system and the anthropometric measurements, called Size-Korea, which were surveyed in the years 2003 and 2004. At first, the subjects of the survey were classified into 4 age groups, $18{\sim}24,\;25{\sim}34,\;35{\sim}49\;and\;50{\sim}59$, based on the most significant differences of body sizes. Secondly, the ranges of four key dimensions - height, bust, waist and hip-of normal sizes were identified through analyzing Rohrer index and percentile. The selected sizes within the ranges were grouped by the drop which was the subtraction of bust girth from hip girth. In conclusion, there was the most frequent drop for each age group; 9cm drop for the $18{\sim}24$ years old group, the 6cm drop for the $25{\sim}34$ years old and $35{\sim}49$ years old and 3cm drop for $50{\sim}59$ years old. The upper body garment sizes of the same drop and target ages could be merged to 10 to 12 sizes, which were remarkably smaller than the Female Adult garment sizing system, and further to 2-5 sizes, considering the percentile importance. However, $50{\sim}59$ years old group needed to be analyzed in different ways, because the number of subjects of normal size in the age decreased rapidly, that the normal sizes for them were very limited. In addition, the reference body sizes of each garment size were apparently different when they were compared to each age groups. These basic data for garment size specification could be usefully adapted for the apparel companies' own sizing system according to their age target and body shapes, to achieve efficient production and better fit.

• 한국노년학
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.751-765
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• 2011

본 연구는 노년의 호명과 관련해 한국사회의 다양한 언어적 실천이 노정하고 있는 갈등과 그 정치적 함의를 밝히고, 이러한 현상이 벌어지고 있는 원인을 문화적 차원에서 조명하려 한다. 근래에 들어 한국사회에서 노년을 어떻게 호명할 것인지가 일상에서 문제시되고 있다. 이에 따라 새로운 호명방식이 등장하고 있으며, 이러한 현상은 노년의 주변화를 의미한다. 하지만 새로운 호명방식들도 노년 호명의 문제를 풀어내지 못하고 있다. 그 이유는 한국사회의 연령주의적, 성차별적, 신분주의적 시선이 노년에 대한 다양한 호칭과 지칭의 의미를 주변화시키고 있기 때문이다. 또한 노년의 주변화는 문화적 차원에서 노년의 타자화가 심화되면서, 노년이 타자성의 집적지가 되어가는 '주변성의 노년화'가 진행되고 있기 때문이다. 학계와 전문가 집단에서도 노년의 호명과 관련된 다양한 언어적 실천이 지니는 정치적 함의에 대한 이해와 더불어 차별적 언어사용을 넘어서려는 실천이 요구된다.