Abstract
In the preceding paper (part 1) it was demonstrated that domestic science education which were given to university education when they were at primary, junior and senior-high schools, had a large possibility to influence their daily life behavior on environmental preservation and resource saving. In the paper, attempts are made to examine whether there exists any significant effect of school education on clothing life behavior of university students in order to discus the necessities of school clothing education as a part of environmental education. For this purpose, the surveys are made in form of question-and-answer for students (131 males and 192 females (total 323)) registered at Kumamoto University. The results are summarized as follows: (1) Sexual difference is observed in purchasing behavior including criteria on choice of clothes; Female students behaved in harmony with environmental preservation and energy saving, suggesting strongly the achievement of clothing education at their primary, junior-and senior- high schools. (2) Male students have a tendency to put less importance on maintenance of purchased clothes as criteria on choice. This can be at least partly explained by the facts that male students had narrow experience of studying clothing life at schools and had narrow experience in actual management of clothing in daily life. Therefore, clothing education as part of environmental education should be given to male students rather than female students at Faculty of Education. (3) At the stage of purchase of clothes only few students took into consideration abandonment and then reasonable and rational clothing life behavior from purchase to abandonment should be taught thoroughly at their university.
