Abstract
As for our clothing, there are two forms of clothing, that is our traditional clothes or kimono and western style clothes. As the western style clothes became more and more widely worn, the use of kimono are being limited. However, it is one of the issues in the field of homemaking education how to utilize our kimono with a long history in our modern life. The author, with an intention of clarifying the merits and demerits of kimono in comparison with those of western style clothes, has been conducting this study. In this paper the author would like to show the following results obtained judging from the pulse frequency by the heart-rate telemeter and the breath-rate according to the labor intensity in household labor. (1) Labor intensity in household labor increases in proportion to the pulse frequensy and the breathrate. (2) In a normal condition the pulse frequency increases in proportion to the intensity of the work. Therefore R.M.R. can be guessed by the increase of the pulse-rate engaged in a household labor. (3) It is desirous to mechanize the intense ones in the household labor. (4) In the light labor there has been no difference between kimonos and western style clothes.
