The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between body/self image and clothing. The subjects were 306 female college students. The subjects completed a questionnaire about their feelings of body/self esteem, clothing satisfaction, and the proximity of clothing to self. In addition, their body size was measured according to the JIS method.
Factor analysis revealed the factors representing body esteem, self esteem, the instability of body image, and the instability of self image separately. The relationship among above factors was also examined. Further analysis showed that body/self esteem tended to positively correlate with clothing satisfaction. Also, the two groups of high and low proximity of clothing to oneself differed in the degree of the instability of self image.
The results of this study seem to indicate that clothing acts to increase self security to some extent. Implications for the research are discussed.

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Some effects of calendering on the fabric structure are reported. A cotton broad, nylon 6 taffeta and polyester taffeta were selected for this study. The results are as follows:
(1) The decrease in fabric thickness caused by calendering is mainly due to the closepacking of fibers and flattening of yarns for cotton broad and polyester taffeta, and in addition to these, due to crimpinterchange and decrease of crimp ratio for nylon taffeta.
(2) Furthermore, the change for cotton broad is to spread out to both directions of warp and weft, which also leads to decrease the fabric thickness.
(3) By using the shear-deformation theory developed by Kawabata et al., a contact area, a compressive force and the effect of mechanical entanglement of fibers at an intersection of warp and weft yarns are examined. These values are considerably increased by calendering. This is more evident under higher bowl pressure, and more evident in nylon taffeta than in polyester taffeta.
The influences of frictional calendering on the structural change in fabric are similarly investigated.

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