Japanese Journal of Health and Human Ecology
Online ISSN : 1882-868X
Print ISSN : 0368-9395
ISSN-L : 0368-9395
Studies on Wearing Form of Working Clothes of Far Women Under the Thermal Environment of North-eastern Part of Japan
Second Report: Relationship between the subjective feeling of warmth and the garments in four seasons
Kazuko TOYOMA
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1986 Volume 52 Issue 2 Pages 75-91

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In the first report of this series the author has described the relationships between the numbers and the weight of garments and the complaints on warmth of daily wears and working clothes in June of Akita area. This report deals with those relationships above mentioned in four seasons in the same area. The results are as follows: 1. As for the subjective complaints, fewer people judged as comfortable in all the senses of warmth, humidness and comfortness about the outdoor garments than those of indoor clothings. 2. Coolness of body parts were complained in the order of feet, hands and faces. However, these complaints decreased as the temperature increased. 3. In the cold season of February, characteristic feature was seen in wearing the same kind of clothes one over another in those of underwears, underpants and socks. 4. As for the relationship between the temperature and the feeling of warmth, people who responded as?gcool?hin wearing outdoor working clothes, they seemed to be tend to feel cool than others judged from the regression line. On the other hand, they wear less clothes indoor in every categories of senses compared to those of outdoor. And they seemed to wear thinly in accordance to temperature increase judged by steeper inclination of the regression line.

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