• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.9_10 s.157
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• pp.1413-1422
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• 2006

Technologies such as television shopping channels and the internet expand consumers' impulse purchasing opportunities. The interest in national differences of consumer behavior was growing and highlighted the importance of understanding the national context of consumer behavior in an increasing globalized marketplace. The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of fashion involvement and hedonic consumption on impulse buying for Korean and American young consumers, and to compare the differences between two groups. A questionnaire was developed from literatures reviewed. Data were obtained from students attending universities in Korea(N=413) and the U.S.(N=290). Using structural equation modeling, the results indicated that the proposed model of this study was appropriate to explain the effects of fashion involvement and hedonic consumption on impulse buying for Korean and American young consumers. The model showed that fashion involvement and hedonic consumption played important roles in triggering impulse buying for two groups. In addition, American consumers were more likely to influence fashion involvement and hedonic consumption on impulse buying than Korean consumers. The results provided some insights into globalized retail marketing theory supporting the national aspects of impulse buying. Future research and managerial implications are addressed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.31 no.9_10
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• pp.1352-1363
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to understand consumer needs through fashion sensibilities on Character T-shirts. This study suggests the basis of planning effective design of Character T-Shirts by categorizing. The results were summarized as follows: 1. Fashion sensibility factors such as aestheticism, visibility, cutesiness, flexibility occupied 57.2% of the total. 2. The types of the Character T-Shirts were classified into four groups. The four types showed significant differences in all fashion sensibility. Aestheticism had its highest and lowest values in types 3 and 4, respectively; visibility in types 4 and 1, respectively; cutesiness in types 2 and 4, respectively; and flexibility in types 2 and 1. respectively. 3. As for the relation of consumer sensibility to fashion sensibilities, impulse related to eight adjectives; buying to nine adjectives; and recommendation to twelve adjectives. Impulse, buying and recommendation related to aestheticism and visibility.4. In the demographical aspect of fashion sensibilities and consumer sensibilities, significant differences found in age, gender, job and academic level. Therefore, the results of this study can be used as criteria of improving fashion sensibility consumer sensibility of Character T-Shirts. Especially, enhanced comsumer sensibility is expected by the elimination of texts and the choice of preferred character actions and vivid warm colors.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.485-492
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• 2008

The study is to provide the types of fashion consumption of male and female university students and to analyze fashion involvement to the types and students' source of fashion information. Then the correlations were examined between fashion involvement and source of fashion information. The data were analyzed by a factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, Duncan test, cluster analysis, cross-tabulation analysis. The results are as follows: 1. The awareness about fashion consumption is classified into five factors: "hedonic consumption", "impulsive consumption", "brand loyal consumption", "prudent consumption", and "independent consumption". The fashion involvement to the types is categorized into four factors; "pleasure", "trend", "image", and "risk awareness". The source of fashion information is categorized into "mass media", "product information", and "personal information". 2. The fashion consumption is classified into three types: "an independent consumer type", "a brand loyal/ prudent consumer type", and "an impulsive consumer type". 3. In the fashion involvement to the types and the source of fashion information, there is a high correlation between the factors of "mass media" and "trend", "product information" and "pleasure" and "personal information" and "trend".

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.50-65
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• 2014

This study investigates the effect of demographics and materialism on the consumers's attitudes and clothing purchase behaviors. The subjects compose of 302 college students living in Yunnam, China. The mean, ANOVA, factor analysis, Duncan test were used for statistics analysis. According to our results, the factors of materialism, symbolic consumptions, and attitude toward fashion luxury products are identified: three factors of materialism (success symbols, practical living, and happiness pursuing), three factors of symbolic consumption (conspicuous, hedonic, communication), and five factors of attitudes toward fashion luxury products (quality, involvement, ostentation, luxurious aspect, pleasure). Among the demographics, gender, income, social stratification, father's education and job influenced the symbolic consumption, and desire's fashion luxury products. In addition, gender, income, social stratification, father's education and job influence the clothing selection standards and the extent of using fashion informations. Lastly, symbolic consumption, attitudes toward fashion luxury products, and apparel purchasing behaviors all proven to be significantly different among the 3 groups of materialism.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.759-769
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to classify consumption value and analyze the relationship between consumption value typology and fashion product purchasing behavior of college students as consumers. Data were gathered by surveying college students living in Daegu and Kyungbook area using convenient sampling, and 513 questionnaires were used in the statistical analysis. Data were analyzed by frequency, factor analysis, cluster analysis, ANOVA, Duncan-test, Chi-square, and t-test. The findings are as follows. According to the consumption value typologies of college students were classified into three groups such as Social Value oriented, Functional Value oriented, and Differentiated Individuality oriented group. The Social Value oriented group and the Differentiated Individuality oriented group were more conscious of clothing pursuit propensities behavior such as brand, shopping place, and price than Functional Value oriented group. The Functional Value oriented group showed the lowest interest in brand name. Purchasing behavior of casual wear and bags fashion product had the significant effects on the shopping place, and price.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.66 no.4
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• pp.18-31
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• 2016

This study examined the consumption of licensed sports fashion products by sports fans in order to provide useful information to apparel companies that are interested in sports sponsorship marketing. Grounded theory approach was adopted to explore consumers' attitude toward the sponsoring companies, and motives of buying licensed fashion products. In-depth interviews were conducted with female fans of professional baseball clubs. The main phenomena of interest was consumer purchase of licensed fashion product, with the emphasis on cultural consumption as a causal condition. Providing support for victory, vicarious consumption, social identification, and needs to differentiate were identified as strategies related to licensed product purchase. Economic situations and limitations to purchase are identified as the mediating conditions. The study identified the effects of the consumption on the fan as well as the sponsoring companies as consequences of the phenomena. Sports marketing strategies were suggested for apparel companies based on the analysis of the consumption rituals for licensed fashion goods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.57 no.9
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• pp.149-160
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of service qualities and consumption emotion on consumer satisfaction of internet fashion shopping malls. Data were obtained from 304 internet fashion shopping mall consumers who have bought fashion products or visited an internet fashion shopping mall. Questionnaires related to service quality, consumption emotion, consumer satisfaction. For analysis of data, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis were applied. The results were as follows: 1. The service quality dimensions of internet fashion shopping malls were reliability, merchandise variability, web-design, communication and safety. The consumption emotion dimensions were classified as positive emotion and negative emotion. 2. The service quality of internet fashion shopping malls and the consumption emotion had an effect on consumer satisfaction of internet fashion shopping malls. The dimensions of communication, merchandise variability of the service quality in internet fashion shopping malls had an effect on positive emotion. Safety, reliability of the service quality had an effect on negative emotion. Both positive emotion and negative emotion of the consumption emotion dimensions had an effect on consumer satisfaction of internet fashion shopping malls.

• Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.372-381
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• 2015

This study investigates differences in fashion products attributes, mobile shopping mall attributes, impulse buying behavior, and satisfaction according to mobile shoppingconsumption value. The findings provide new information on marketing strategy for mobile shopping malls. A total of 283 usable questionnaires were obtained from college students. Data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, and ANOVA using SPSS 21.0 for Windows. The results were as follows. First, according to the consumption value, consumer were classified into 3 groups: social/functional oriented, indifference and epistemic/emotional oriented. Second, the conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered utility and exhibition more important in regards to fashion products attributes for the consumption value group, the personality pursuit group also considered aesthetics and utility more important than other groups. Third, conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered continuous management more importantin regards to the importance ofmobile shopping mall attributes for the consumption value group, the personality pursuit group considered informationexchange more important than the other groups. Fourth, the conspicuous-functional pursuit group and Personality pursuit group considered impulse purchase behavior more important than the emotionalpursuit group. The conspicuous-functional pursuit group considered satisfaction after impulse purchase behavior more important than other groups.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.492-504
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• 2015

This study verified the effect of self-image pursuits by female consumers for clothing purchase values and fashion images as well as the role of age regulations as a measurement invariance. We surveyed 717 women aged 20-60 residing in Seoul, Gyeonggi province and Incheon city. The survey showed that pursuit affects clothing purchase values, which subsequently affect fashion images. However, expressive value was not shown to affect urban style fashion images for clothing purchase values. Age (one of main parameters for market segmentation) was also shown not regulate the effect of self-image pursuits on clothing purchase values and fashion images. The results of this study can provide fundamental data to establish fashion image-based marketing to help predict consumer's purchase behavior and suggest practical advice for effective marketing strategies by applying marketing based on differentiated fashion images to fashion marketing programs.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.444-456
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to understand consumer needs through Fashion Sensibilities and Consumer Sensibilities on Men's Casual Brand's Patterned Shirts. This study suggests the basis of planning effective design of Men's Casual Brand's Patterned Shirts by categorizing. The product from 2005 S/S to 2007 F/W is divided into the following sector: years, seasons, and product zones(adult, character, traditional), focusing on the design property of Men's Casual Brand's Patterned Shirts. An evaluation tool is composed of 19 pairs of image adjectives and 3 questionnaire as consumer need tool. Data were collected on March 3th to 31th in 2008 over Busan area. The data were sorted by using the SPSS statistics package program. Fashion sensibility of Men's Casual Brand's Patterned Shirts were expressed with 4 factors of attractivity, visibility, sensibility, hardness occupied 58.6% of the total. Therefore as attractivity, visibility, sensibility, hardness are important for product planning, it would be effective to consider these 4 factors before product planning.