This paper aims to find guides for designing the pantyhose with comfortable support force on legs. An experiment for clarifying the comfortable and critical clothing pressure values on the thigh, calf and ankle was conducted using fifteen female students and twelve office workers as subjects. And the factors affecting those values were analyzed.
The results obtained are as follows.
1) The mean values of the comfortable clothing pressure were 0.58kPa on the thigh, 0.97kPa on the calf, and 0.81kPa on the ankle.
2) The mean values of the critical clothing pressure were 1.08kPa on the thigh, 1.85kPa on the calf, and 1.67kPa on the ankle.
3) Standard deviations of the critical clothing pressure values were larger than those of the comfortable clothing pressure values, which was larger at a peripheral of leg.
4) Twenties women whose weight is lighter, preferred the high clothing pressure on thigh sig-nificantly. Thirties-forties women whose Rohrer index is higher, and younger thirties-forties women preferred the high clothing pressure on the calf significantly.
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