With the purpose being to efficiently create the reproduction of clothing as historical materials, an image analysis was conducted with a large three-dimensional measurement instrument (BLS) by means of laser light for clothing with a large billowing due to easing-in, and an attempt was made to grasp this objectively and quantitatively with the silhouette of the clothing as the volume value, and were reported in the previous paper. However, BLS is a large-scale equipment and that cannot measure clothes of dark color, in this study, the reproducibility and effectiveness of silhouette measurements using a small hand-held three-dimensional scanner (HS) with a pattern light were investigated through a comparison with the data obtained by BLS. For the torso measurements, the rate of change of the HS measurement values was seen to have a good reproducibility of approximately 1%. In the measurement by HS, it can be seen that the unevenness and marks that serve as the clues for the alignment of the scan data are needed, and it was proposed attaching thread marks that gives due consideration to not leaving any traces on the clothing and that does not alter the shape of the silhouette be used on the cloth. A high degree of congruence was observed between Hm, the volume value measured with HS attaching thread marks, and B, the volume value measured with BLS.

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In the present study, eighteen nurses working in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology were asked to wear medical uniforms with different designs and to describe their impressions of the uniforms, psychological states while wearing them, and their desirability. (1)When the nurses were wearing medical uniforms that were desirable as viewed by them, they felt motivated to work and no psychological stress. (2)The nurses in the above-mentioned group evaluated those uniforms as giving the patients the impression of “being welcome”, “nurses being able to move smoothly”, “healing”, “being reliable”, and “feeling relaxed”. (3)Factor analyses of the images of the medical uniforms were conducted. The average score of the first (healing effects/familiarity) factor was high in the above-mentioned group of nurses who felt motivated to work and no psychological stress. (4)The wearing of medical uniforms that are associated with sense of compassion, from the viewpoint of patients, has positive effects on the psychological aspect of nurses who wear them.

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