The environment which surrounds the fashion faces the wave of information in Japan. Same information about clothes is scattered into any region at the same time through the medium like the television and magazines now. However, it is said that there is a respouse to difference in a respohse to clothes by the region. The purpose of this investigation is to examine a response to clothes in two different regions, to clarify the difference of the region from diversified respect, and to analyze the cause for a regional difference. Two hundreds and ninety-nine undergraduates inShimaneandOsakahave been selected. They have been asked to respond clothes of 47 items.
Major findings obtained are as follows:
1) There are no difference in the majority of items and a significant difference is recognized among 12 items.
2) Four factors are analyzed as the structure of a response to clothes, (1) Fashion, (2) Self-expression, (3) Ability to wear well, and (4) Quality/Performance. In addition to these basic factors, the element of recognition is included in the region ofOsaka.
3) It was clarified that there is the difference in a response to clothes between two regions by the distinction analysis.
4) The factors of the item whose regional difference is recognized are analyzed with the cluster analysis of the factor score and are classified into four groups. There is different constituent ratio of four groups between two regions.
It has been understood that common groups in both regions exist and the difference of a response to clothes between two regions depends on the difference of the distribution of groups.

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At present, consumption of clothing for daily use depends greatly on ready-to-wear clothes. Good designing of ready-to-wear clothes to fit a human body is extremely important. But presently the body which is used for designing is not constructed on the measurement data in the form of a human body, being based on the relative reservation of a human body and the body which is presupposingly designed to make clothes. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to clarify the construction conditions in designing the body for clothing. Namely, we averaged the horizontal section and symmetrized either side which is required as the data for body design, using the data obtained by the threedimensional human body measuring system.
From the three-dimensional measurement data of the standing posture of 30 adult women ranging from 20 to 25 years old in age, there were extracted 4 horizontal sections with top point level of fissured posterior armpit, bust line, waist line and hip line and analyzed non-symmetry of a human body on left and rigth sides which is seen at the time of natural standing posture. An analysis was made about 3 elements of twisting, slipperiness and characteristic warp of the figure. After finding an angle of rotation for the twist correction and returning the twist, we measured the depth, width of the diameter and the curved figure and tried to seek to find the mean figure. The curved figure was modeled into semicircle and square joining figures. A semicircular part on left and right sides was regarded as the polar coordinate and processed statistically. We drew the mean figure using these average values, recomposing each section.
As a result, the drawn mean figure was possible to reproduce the property of figure in each section, almost wihtout twisting and slipperiness.

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