Abstract
This article examines the relation between ready-made clothes and bodies.
Ready-made clothes have spread widely since the 1960s in Japan, and this brought a big change in the relation between clothes and bodies. Ready-made clothes are made according to “size standards, ” which are based on the measured data of various bodies. Therefore, there is a possibility that a particular piece of clothing may not fit a certain body. People that wear ready-made clothes see these clothes with “other bodies.” In conclusion, the relation between clothes and bodies varied from “making clothes that fit bodies” to “making bodies that is fitted clothes.”
The first part of this article (the first, second, third chapters) describes the change in industries that manufacture ready-made clothes. The last (the forth and fifth chapters) describes the influences on the people that wear ready-made clothes.
Further research on this type of relation between clothes and bodies would clarify the cultural history of the human body.
