抄録
In order to design suitable clothes for elderly women, we surveyed the body image consciousness, types of clothes that were purchased frequently, and clothing fit preference in women aged 60-89 years by questionnaire, and analysed the results by age group. When asked about their body image, more than half of them did not acknowledge any increase in bending of the back despite getting older. Recently purchasing and frequently wearing clothes is such as shirts and pants. However, this study revealed that they do not often purchase or wear skirts or dresses. Their preference when purchasing clothes is to highly value items that “suit their somatotype”, “comfortable” are appealing. Meanwhile, as a result of Primary Component Analysis in each age group, “functional clothing that emphasizes auxiliary life activities” in the first principal component shows a high amount of factor loading.
