Abstract
Although various aspects of clothing have recently been studied extensively from the human factors engineering viewpoint, very few studies have been made on the clothes covering the beckengürlel, especially with reference to the motion characteristics of articulatio coxae.
In the light of this apparent gap, an attempt is made here to study the clothes for the beckengürlel, and, more specifically, pants, which have for some time become one of the commonest clothes for women. From among various approaches which might possibly be applied, the one chosen as the most suitable for this study is: first, to carry out a number of kinesiological experiments and, subsequently, to analyze basic data thus obtained with a view to deriving therefrom certain propositions related to desirable design characteristics of pants.
