In order to investigate the interaction between pattern and colour in clothing, an analysis was made of image effect in two-colour striped patterns.
Average-sized models (160 cm×50 kg) were clothed in basic one-piece dresses with striped patterns consisting of stripes and white spaces in two colours, and samples were made by using a colour simulator. The Results were then analyzed.
In the present study an analysis was made of the fashion aspect of the‘appearance’ of clothing by using fashion image terms in addition to basic image adjective pairs. The SD method was used to derive values, and these values were then subjected to factor analysis.
The results showed that warm-colour pairs produced‘active’, ‘excitable’, ‘warm’, ‘fat’, images. On the other hand, cool-colour-pairs produced strong images which suggest such adjectives as‘cute’, ‘feminine’, ‘adult’, ‘formal’, ‘cool’, ‘thin’, . The combination of neuter colours produced images suggestive of adjectives such as‘static’, ‘calm’, and‘not cute’, ‘not feminine’.
As far as the broad vertical stripe pattern was concerned, it produced‘active’, ‘excitable’, images; the broad horizantal stripe pattern produced‘not cute’, ‘not feminine’, and‘cool’, ‘slim’, images. The narrow vertical stripe pattern produced‘static’, ‘calm’, ‘adult’, ‘formal’, ‘warm’, ‘fat’, images. In addition, the narrow vertical stripe pattern produced‘cute’, ‘feminine’, images.
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