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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between female students' attitudes toward body images and dressing ideas by compaing the results of two surveys which were conducted in 1992 and 2006 .Two hundred female university students who live in the metropolitan area filled out the questionnaire in 1992 and 2006,respectively.The main items of the questionnaire are the consciousness of their real and ideal body images,and the daily patterns of wearing clothes.These questionnaire data were analyzed by using statistical testing,factor analysis and Quantification Method Ⅲ. As to the female students' consciousness of their own body images,5 common factors which express stoutness,bust size,hipline level,height and shoulder slopes were extracted by factor analysis in 1992 and 2006,respectively.Two factors which express stoutness and bust size were different statistically between ideal and real body images.But the structure of factors indicated the same tendency in both 1992 and 2006.Among the factors from dressing ideas by Quantification Method Ⅲand the factors from body images by factor analysis, some correlations were found in 1992, but none were found in 2006.

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The aim of this article is to consider Japonism in Britain at the end of the 19^th century through two types of dresses; tea gowns worn by women for five o'clock tea at home, and fancy dresses for boys and girls at fancy dress balls. In this period , in formation on Japan and the Japanese spread through the in troduction of Japanese customs, arts, and skills in the Japanese village in London, and through plays on Japan like ‘The Mikado' and ‘The Geisha'.At the same time, tea gowns were also popular, so Japanese styles such as the kimono, obi, Japanese-style sleeves, and Japanese patterns were adopted as a part of their design. Fancy dresses for children also had a Japanese flavour. For example, dresses imitating ‘three little maids' in ‘The Mikado' and ‘a geisha', were seen at fancy dress balls every year after 1892. A linear kimono design provided a new view of the body, and it can be suggested that these dresses had an influence on the later fashion trends.

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This study examined the lifestyle characteristics of male high school students in Seoul and Tokyo, and also examined the relatedness of the constructs of lifestyle, satisfaction, and passenger manners. The following are the five major findings:(1) Lifestyle: Differences were observed between Korean and Japanese boys. The former were more prestige-oriented and willing to stand out than the latter, while the latter were more dependent and introverted. (2) Factor analysis of the lifestyle questionnaire items of the students in both countries extracted four factors: self-realization orientation, introversion/unsociability, trend orientation and prestige orientation. (3) According to the simultaneous analysis of the lifestyles of Korean and Japanese male high school students, the less introverted (the more sociable) the student was, the stronger his trend and self-realization orientations were. (4) Satisfaction: In both countries, the less introverted the student was, the more satisfied he was. Students in both countries placed the greatest emphasis on satisfaction with their relationships with friends. The second greatest emphasis was on satisfaction with school life for Japanese students and with family life for Korean students. (5)Passenger manners: In both countries, the less introverted the student was, the stronger his trend orientation was, and the stronger his trend orientation was, the worse his passenger manners were.

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