Abstract
For the purpose of clarifying the relation between the silhouette formed by gathering and the physical properties of the cloth, the experiments were carried out from the standpoint of clothing construction, using 1/2 size models of actual gather-skirts and other simplified models.
As the results it has been found that the physical properties such as stiffness, thickness, crease-resistivity, modulus of elasticity and weight of the cloth seem to have influence on the shape of skirts, and stiffness is most influential among them.
