We have made inquiries about the places of family members change their clothes and how to keep them, and also housewives' desire of how to improve the existing conditions for closet spaces. We analyzed the results of our inquiries and foundings as follows :
1) About 30 percent of the subjects change their clothes in other rooms rather than their own bedrooms. They tend to use the living room or spare room for changing their clothes.
2) In many cases they keep their clothes in other rooms rather than their on bedrooms, especially shoes, Japanese native costumes, and off-season clothes. This phenomenon depends on several factors, whether or not they have private rooms, whether or not they have a closet in their own bedrooms, and the size of their bedrooms.
3) Ninety-eight percent of the families put their off-season clothes away and use the closets for seasonal clothes only. But 30 percent of the housewives do not want to do these procedures at every season.
4) At present, clothes are mainly kept in the wardrobe, plastic cases, metal cases and paper boxes, however, many housewives desire the built-in wardrobe for their clothes.
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