This study is an examination of the influence of parents to children on the clothing norms and the characteristics of the parent-child relationship from the viewpoint of children. The examination method is a factor analysis on the basis of the necessity rating among 20 items on clothing norms. After obtaining 5 major factors, the differences were calculated between expectation of the parents and awareness of children.
Concerning the parent-child relationship, affinity and communication factors were picked up, in order to show how they influence on the above differences.
One conclusion of this paper is that higher affinity children, especially who keep deeper intimacy, have the smaller differences. The communication from parents to children influence rather stronger than from children to parents. In other words, the differences come smaller as parents exert strong influence on children through communication.

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This paper, based on the result of the last one about the consciousness structure of clothing norms in this series, focuses on conformity and deviation of clothing norms. The objective of this paper is, as the previous ones, to make it clear that conformity and deviation of clothing norms would give rise to some affections on the authority of the consciousness structure we have found. And that the height of the structure of clothing norms would make these affections different. Represented as clothing norms consciousness in the paper twentyone items were chosen from fifty-six clothing norms consciousness items table. The clothing affections were here “comfortable-uncomfortable”, “secure-anxious”, “proud-ashamed” and“superior-inferior”. At first, we used factor analysis to find the consciousness structure of clothing norms, by which we have found four factors. Then, we tested an effect test among samples to research how the clothing affections would affect the height of the consciousness of clothing norms. As a result, it appeared to be clear that in many cases both gender and social status (student or not) was affected by each four factors we found.

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This study has investigated the relation between affective states in dress, conformed to or deviated from clothing norms and dresser characteristics. 563 students and 590 workers were asked to rate the degree of awareness of clothing norm and the degree of affective states in dress, conformed to or deviated from clothing norms. They also completed the scales of selfconsciousness, self-esteem, and need for uniqueness. Analyses of variance (ANOVAs) and correlation analysis showed that self-consciousness, self-esteem and need for uniqueness would define the affective states in dress, conformed to or deviated from clothing norms.
Self-consciousness had positive correlation with the affective states in dress, conformed to or deviated from clothing norms.
Self-esteem and need for uniqueness had negative correlation with the affective states in dress, conformed to or deviated from clothing norms.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the influence of factors of clothing behavior toward clothing norms. Total 255 persons including female university students, male university students, middle-age men, and middle-age women completed the questionnaire forms of situation image, clothing norm and importance of choice and decision on clothing toward 10 life situations. Its values were analyzed using factor analysis, analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis. The results are as follows:
1) The image of life situation is composed of two factors: “formality” and“gorgeousness”. The clothing norm is composed of three factors: “social harmony and norm”, “self-appeal and fashion”, and“utility”. The importance of choice and decision on clothing is composed of two factors: “design of clothing and impression”and“utility and taste”.
2) The clothing norm and the clothing behavior factor are differently interpreted by generation and sex. The self-appeal and fashion in clothing norms takes especially influence.
3) The social harmony and norm in clothing norms operates to the formality in image of life situations. The self-appeal and fashion in clothing norms operates to the gorgeousness in image of life situations. Also the f ormer's influenced men, and the latter's influenced women.
4) The social harmony and norm in clothing norms operates to the clothing design and impression in importance of choice and decision on clothing, but the utility and taste operates to negative. The self-appeal and fashion in clothing norms especially operates to the clothing design and impression, and it influenced students.

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The purpose of this study is to discuss the experiences of positive affects and promotion of active behavior of elderly men and women by putting on a certain types of clothing. Furthermore, an attempt is made to collect basic data towards the emotional activation using clothing by investigating the relation between clothing and the willingness of autonomy and other similar factors
226 elderly men and women have been examined of their difference of the estimation of clothes, the affects and willingness of behavior of a stimulation photograph. The data were analyzed based on value about affect by the method of principal component analysis and two factors of affects were produced. And the relation between those factors and relation with other indices were considered. From the result of analysis variances (ANOVAs), dress evaluation (2) X situation (2) X gender (2) X clothes to be roused affect (2) factorial design, found affects and willingness of behavior differences. Positive affect change was less aroused in going out to a distant place and willingness of behavior was decreased. Moreover, it was suggested that the wearing intention to clothes of the stimulation photograph has influenced. Especially in male elderly people, correlation was suggested between the willingness of autonomy, fashion attitude, and willingness of behavior. And the affects change by changing dress like a woman also in a male was found out.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between males' orientation for gender-free clothing behavior and gender related personality (masculinity, femininity, and gender schema) . Photographs of a male university student who wore two different outfits of women's clothing have been prepared. The subjects, 271 male and female university students, completed a questionnaire about image, attitude, and their intention to wear the same clothing as the photographs of a student. In the case of males, analysis of variance (ANOVA) has shown that femininity facilitated orientation for gender-free clothing behavior in many dependent variables. Also we found that gender-schematic tendency facilitated orientation for gender-free clothing behavior.

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The objective of this study is to make it clear what expectations about fashions are held by Japanese male college students who are interested in fashions.
At first, we classified the fashion items into the same three categories as our first paper in this series. That is, brand items, daily life items and information items. We have used principal factor analysis to find the factors which were made of their expectations. On the brand items, the first factor was feeling-substance and the second one was change-constancy. At the same time, we have studied the relationship between the factors and the items.
Then, we have used the principal factor analysis with the data as a whole to get the three factors: feeling-substance, change-constancy and simple-complex. The result has shown that a fashion item in the future would contain these expectations represented by the factors. Whether the data were put in individually or as a whole, both the feeling-substance factor and the change-constancy factor were important in fashion movement.
Finally, we have used cluster analysis to study similarity among the items. As a result, we plotted the similar items, in particular, wine-cake, sport-car and T-shirt-jeans.

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The purpose of this study is a consideration on the correlation between a women's college student's fashion attitude and dressing which are characterized by the eating disorder tendency and fashion adoption time. An eating disorder, fashion adoption time, the degree of proximity of clothing to oneself, etc. has been surveyed for 179 women's college students.
The data were analyzed with the method of principal component analyses, and the result has revealed three types of cause of thinness factors, two affective factors, and four types of dressing attitude factors. Four groups characterized by the eating disorder tendency and fashion adoption time have been examined whether a difference would be accepted in those factors. As a result, for example, a “fashion-oriented eating disorder tendency group”indicated the contents of dress as one of the causes wishing to become thin. They wore a tight dress and they fell that the shape of the body would expand when they put on dress. When they put on dress, they enhanced their self-consciousness and they were aware of coquetry. Moreover, it was suggested that“degree of proximity of clothing to oneself”has an effect on“fashionnon-oriented eating disorder tendency group”.

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