抄録
The purpose of this study was to clarify what kind of movements young women generally see and find beautiful, with respect to the walking movements of women of their age. First, two healthy young women (tall and short stature；the following is a “model”) were instructed to walk under eight different stride conditions controlled with 120bpm, and the videos of the sagittal plane were taken from the side. Next, 15 women of the same age as the model participated as evaluators. The walking videos of the models were displayed on the monitor, and the beauty of gait was evaluated by the evaluators. The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used as the evaluation scale, and the degree of beauty was subjectively judged.
Regardless of the height of the model, the walking motion of each model was evaluated as more beautiful when the stride length increased from 25 cm to 75 cm. The highest score was obtained when the stride length was 75 cm. Then the models walked with wider stride and the evaluation was significantly lower than earlier. The present study suggests that aiming for beautiful walking gait implies walking with a slightly wide stride.
