The consumer has often perceived various kinds of risk in purchasing fashion goods. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationships between ‘perceived fashion risk’ and ‘need for uniqueness’ of consumer in purchasing clothing. Three hundreds and three undergraduates served as subjects. They were asked to rate thirty-eight fashion risk items, thirty-two ‘need for uniqueness’ items, twenty-two fashion orientation items, and their fashion selection based on five different reasons. The relationship between ‘perceived fashion risk’ and ‘need for uniqueness’ of consumer was analyzed by using factor scores which were extracted from a factor analysis of the ratings. As a result, significant relationships were found between some factors of ‘perceived fashion risk’ and some factors of ‘need for uniqueness’.

  A questionnaire survey was conducted on working women to investigate the types of shoes responsible for variety of podiatric disease occuring during wear of shoes. The following results were obtained.

1) In spite of a high percentage of women wearing relatively low-heeled shoes, various complaints related to shoes were raised by a large number of workers. On examining the frequencies of six kinds (for example, shoe sore and impelling feeling of walking around bare-foot) of complaint, the number of workers with complaints amounted to more than 50%.

2) During working hours, most of the subjects tended to work with low-heeled shoes by changing their shoes which they wore for commutation. Of department store workers, a larger number of workers preferred to change their shoes to shoes with higher heels compared to workers engaged in other types of profession.

3) The rate of hallux valgus tended to increase in women with broad feet, compared to those without them.

4) In the purchase of shoes, “comfortableness during wear” was the motivating factor to which the majority of workers attached great importance. This was followed by “design”. The general tendency was that in the choice of shoes, “design” was a more appealing factor for younger generation workers and “comfortableness” became more important with advance in age.

5) Only 20% were satisfied with the shoes purchased. The over-whelming majority had some kind of dissatisfaction.

  In this paper, we propose to indentify motivational choices for nightwear in an elderly care environment. The data collected by mail survey represents 474 respondants, or 21.8 % of the total solicited. A diagramatic measurement scale for color awareness is provided, along with an analysis of the relationship among identifiable variables.

  Principal findings are :

(1) Analysis of frequency distribution and the Spearman's Rank Correlation indicate low color awareness amang care receivers ;

(2) Positive correlations were found between the 20-item color awareness sub-scale and (a) ten factors from a sub-scale relating to age, (b) two factors from a sub-scale relating to academic background, and (c) six factors from a sub-scale relating to the examinees' professional background ;

(3) Path analysis of the color identification model indicates that color awareness among the examinees' correlates positively with their awareness of the pleasantness or unpleasantness of thier environment.

  In general, interest in color environment relationships is currently ranked as low priority among both care givers the elderly themselves. Thid study concludes that further study by clothing science specialists is necessary to help improve our understanding of color as a factor in quality of care for the elderly.

  This study was performed to evaluate environmental conscious product of four household heavy-duty detergents. The results can be summarized as follows :

1) The detergency test results indicated that there was no significant difference in detergency among four detergents at the standard usage.

2) BOD loadings of the detergents per standard usage throughout raw material produce and surfactant manufacturing suggested that powdered soap has the highest environmental loadings followed by the liquid detergent and two compact powdered detergents had the lowest.

3) The biodegradation test results by BOD measurement showed that all of the four detergents are biodegraded ultimately. BOD loadings of the detergents per standard usage suggested that the compact powdered soap has the highest environmental loadings, followed by the liquid detergent and two compact powdered detergents has the lowest. The biodegradation test by TOC measurement indicated that all four has high biodegradability.

4) BOD loadings throughout detergent use was larger than BOD loadings throughout raw material produce and surfactant manufacturing.

  Bending characteristics of shrunk clothes were discussed from the points both variances of structures for clothes and ones of the bending characteristic for yarns composed of clothes, making several silk Habutaes the subject of this study.

  (1) The shrunk clothes treated with yunoshi method have the properties that bending is soft and elasticity becomes large in the warp yarn bending direction, and bending is hard and elasticity becomes small in the filling yarn bending direction. This is not so much the variance of structures in clothes rather the variance of bending characteristics of yarns in charge of bending of clothes.

  (2) For before and after clothes, next two relations between bending characteristics for clothes and ones for yarns alone composed of clothes were observed experimentally, (≈ corellation mark)

  B/n ≈ B_Y , 2HB/n ≈ 2HB_Y

where, B and 2HB ; Bending stiffness and bending hysteresis for clothes, B_Y and 2HB_Y ; Bending stiffness and bending hysteresis for yarns composed of clothes when measured bending yarns alone taking away the perpendicular yarns to bending yarns, n ; numbers of yarns in charge of bending for clothes.

  Thus, B and 2HB of clothes are expressed in the shapes that B_Y and 2HB_Y of yarns in charge of bending for clothes multiply n of number of yarns in charge of bending for clothes, so the main factor of the structure for clothes related to bending characteristics for clothes may be said n only. Those relations are able to be hold about γ=0.95 not to discriminate bending characteristics between pre-shrunk clothes and shrunk ones.