• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.234-246
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• 2006

As social recognition about men changes and men's concern about appearance increases, so in the social phenomenon of men's toiletries' diversification, ramification and specialization, the aim of this study is to analyze meaning of men's toiletries centered on men's toiletries advertisement published on men's fashion magazines which can be said to speak for men's culture. After collecting of 209 kinds of men's toiletries advertisements published in 'Esquire' and based on contents analysis results divided into domestic & foreign toiletries and perfumery, the symbolic analysis result with selection of representative advertisement in each field separately is that there are more cases of giving salience to a product through image expression rather than emphasizing product's function only, and the emphasis of image only achieves eminence in case of perfumery. At the comparison of domestic with foreign toiletries, in case of domestic toiletries, there are more cases of expressing meaning of toiletries through model image or backgrounds, while in case of foreign toiletries, there are more cases of expressing of function or effect of product through general image itself.