Abstract
We obtained annual reports published between 1976 to 1998 by consumer affairs centers in Japan (31 in all), and analyzed the cases, in which clothing was disposed of, which were caused in the process of dry cleaning.
The number of troubles on dry cleaning for a year were almost the same. At first the number of cases which recorded the details of the accidents was very small, but increased from 1988 onward. When we classified these accidents into 4 aspects : color change and fading, damage, form or appearance, and texture, the number of color change and fading was the highest. It was made clear that the causes of them is arranged in descending order of consumers' ways of wearing, accidents which were caused by cleaner and external factors such as ultraviolet rays when wearing.
