Abstract
For the purpose of improving the clothing and textile education in senior high schools, a questionnaire on clothing and textile activities in home management was administered to the parents of the girl students at six senior high schools in five prefectures. The questiones were classified into two groups : one consisted of 465 farm-homemakers and the other 755 homemakers who were not farmers and did not have any employment.
The following results have been yielded.
There are little differences between the two groups in using the washing machine. In the matter of sending out laundry, there are some differences between them. There are some differences between the two groups in the way of taking up the matter of the worn clothes, due to their attitudes towards living in general.
The survey on “At what stage are your clothers disused ?” discloses that there are differences between the homemakers and their daughters. For example, in case of slips, 30% of homemakers use them until they are worn out, but only 16% of daughters do so.
In clothing and textile education in schools, it would be required to develop the abilities to judge, select, and decide what should be bought, how they should be taken care of and how long they should be worn, in connection with consumer education.
