We live in so called information oriented society. Therefore, in the educational field, it is important to learn how to treat information and to use the educational instruments. At one time most information was formed by the signs of numbers and letters. Recently colors and figures have been regarded as the important elements for information treatment as well. Especially they are indispensable in the field of textiles and clothing design. Therefore we propose here some computer assisted teaching materials which will be efficient in this field.
First, we have developed a computer assisted system, referred to as“Basic course for textiles and clothing design”, which consists of teaching courses and sense tests. Second, in order to evaluate the effects, we made a textbook as the subject including the same contents, and compared learning effects between the two systems. The female students as the subjects were divided into two groups, one, the computer using group, the other, the textbook using group. The evaluation of learning effects was made using questionnaire surveys and sense tests.
The results were as follows:
1) Thanks to the function of real time drawing and painting, the computer assisted system was more effective for learning visual design principles. The computer users, however, felt more tired and less concentrated due to the longer learning.
2) The average of test scores showed no significant difference between two groups. But the variances of the score of computer using group was smaller.
3) The analysis of the sense tests according to Quantification III clarified that the computer users tend to make careless mistakes when they felt tired.

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In the present paper, we aim to clear image held by consumers whose image was explained with a word obtained in the questionnaire about store image in the case of buying clothes. Survey method was questionnaire and the pollees were female students, their mothers and their fathers.
The results were as follows:
1. As a result of factor analysis, the first factor was referred to as merchandising image and the second factor was named buying behavior.
2. Merchandising image was high for department store and specialty store, and was low for supermarket.
3. Lack of planning to buying behavior obtained large number of index for student at supermarket and for mother at department store, and small for father at supermarket.
4. Dispersion of items of buying behavior was, for all kinds of subjects, large for both department store and supermarket.
This showed that in relation of intentional buying behavior department store and supermarket had greater difference between maximum and minimum score than the other three stores.

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This study aims to obtain fundamental data for designing men's socks not to slip in shoes that may prevent normal paces of walking. Thirty-four kinds of men's socks in total were used as samples made and marketed in Japan in 1990. Subjects of the study were thirteen Japanese male adults. The slip feeling scores of the socks was evaluated by the semantic differential method in two cases of trial wear of socks in laboratory and practical wear in everyday life. We examined the relationships between obtained scores of the slip feeling to the frictional property of cloth of socks on the inside bottom of shoes and the cloth thickness. In the range of this study, the following conclusions were obtained:
1) Coefficient of static friction between men's socks and the inside bottom of shoes should not be designed below 0.37 under the environmental condition of 33±1°C, 80±10% of relative humidity, and 19.61 kPa (200 gf/cm³) of a normal force to the inside bottom of shoes.
2) The cloth thickness of men's socks should not be less than 1mm.

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The effect of Anionic Poly (vinyl alcohol), hereinafter referred to as“S-PVA”, on prevention of deposition of α-Fe₂O₃particles onto polyester (PET) film treated by caustic soda was examined. The results obtained were as follows:
1) The degree of deposition of α-Fe₂O₃particles decreased onto PET fabric and film treated with caustic solution, as the addition of S-PVA increased, the effect of S-PVA on prevention of deposition of α-Fe₂O₃Particles onto untreatment PET fabric and film. But the film treated with caustic solution, the degree of deposition of α-Fe₂O₃particles increased by addition of S-PVA solution.
2) Film treated with caustic solution easily gets wet with water, but S-PVA solutions make it more proof against water.
3) As a result of product of carboxyl and hydroxyl groups of polyester with hydrophilic treatment of film, caused the increased surface free energy of film. So surface activity between film and hydrophobic S-PVA I decreased. And hydrophilic α-Fe₂O₃particles became adsorbed onto caus-tic treatment film. From these points of view, we concluded that the effect of the S-PVA on prevention of α-Fe₂O₃particles onto PET film was decreased by caustic treatment.

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