Abstract
The impressions on the size, slack, slippage, comfort and fitness of panty hoses of four types, i. e., woolly, sheer, kennel and support types, were explored with three female subjects undergoing the wearing test reported in the preceding paper. The results were discussed in relation to the phenomena during wearing such as the slippage and change of area enlargement. The infuluence of their tensile properties on these phenomena was also studied. The small-sized and the middle-sized subjects perceive large slack at ankle or knee when wearing the sheer and kennel types. This may be related to the fact that knitted fabrics at ankle have higher tensile energy than those of the knee and the femoral regions. For the large-sized subject slippage was observed ready to occur. She reported the slippage at ankle or knee while she was wearing the sheer and support types, whose fabrics are stiff and lack in extensibility. The small-and middle-sized subjects tend to judge panty hoses of better fit to be more comfortable. The large-sized subjects' seemed to prefer the woolly type, tensile energy of which is rather small and uniform among different portions and there was no substantial correlation between the fitness and comfort for the large-sized subject.
