柴田 優子

We asked 58 young women to select their preferred pant size after trying on pants of various sizes. The wearers and third party observers assessed how well the pants fit at different parts of the body. The results were as follows: 1. Fifty percent of the wearers selected a smaller size than their actual size as their preferred size. 2. As to size selection, wearers whose waists were larger than that of the standard size preferred a good fit at the waist. 3. Regarding the degree of fit in each region, the observers tended to assess the degree of fit over the entire body, while there was no correlation between the degree of fit at the waist and that at the hip among the wearers.

Recently the nail art has been in fashion among young women. The authors aimed to reveal their consciousness of nail art by questionnaire and motional properties of fingers attached false nails in case of fastening or unfastening closures of clothes by experiments. The subjects were female students of Wayo Women's University. The questionnaire and the experiments were conducted from summer to autumn in 2007. Main results were as follows; 1) Students had recognized that detailed motions by long nail were not efficient. Although almost students had short nails, they desired longer nails and they enjoyed to manicure their fingernails as far as possible. 2) The time to unfasten buttons by false fingernails was twice as many as that by self short fingernails. The time to fasten little buttons by false fingernails was about twice as many as that to unfasten. 3) The effect to repeat the motions was evident. 4) The image analysis revealed that the motions by false nails were different from self fingernails. The first joints of fingers were not bended in the case of being attached false nails.