Relationship between Men's Commuting Clothes and their Awareness toward Work Setsuko Yajiri, Tomoko Takaoka, Machiko Morita and Shigeo Kobayashi

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1 Relationship between Men's Commuting Clothes and their Awareness toward Work Setsuko Yajiri*, Tomoko Takaoka**, Machiko Morita*** and Shigeo Kobayashi*** *Showa Womens' Junior College **Hokkaido Womens' College ***Bunka Womens' University ****Kyoritsu Womens' University Abstract Now, our sense of values are changing from devotion to work to enjoying both work and private life. Under such conditions, the actual situation of wearing business suits and male awareness toward them were analyzed and classified into two groups : the younger generation in their 20's and 30's and the older generation in their 40' s and 50's. Moreover, the relationship between the results and awareness toward work was examined. The results were as follows ; Business suits : 1) business suits in the traditional style of commuting clothes were established firmly in the clothes of both the younger and older generations. Soft suits of the loose fit type as seen in designer and character brands became widespread among the younger generation. Very few wore suits without ties. 2) The older generation were apt to put more emphasis on the standard awareness represented by business suits than the younger generation. 3) The correlation between wearing business suits and people's awareness toward work was examined by classifying their clothes into 4 groups : traditional business suits, soft suits, jackets and no ties. It was found that people who wore including traditional business suits had a most the positive attitude toward their work of the four groups, and wore clothes without tie had a more negative attitude toward the authority than the other two suits groups : business suits and soft suits. 4) As to the awareness toward business suits and ties, it was surmised that people who accepted traditional business suits without objection were apt to place emphasis on human relations and the system within their company. (Received November 8, 1994) (Accepted for Publication February 6, 1995)

3 Table 1 Fundamental attributes of the samples T97

4 Fig. 1 Seven commuting clothes used as stimuli Table 2(a) Commuting clothes in spring and summer (part 1) Table 2(b) Commuting clothes in spring and summer (part 2)

5 Fig. 2 Profiles of awareness of business and ties classified by both the younger and older generations, and results of the statistical test (t-test)

6 Table 3 Factor analysis for awareness of business suits and ties

7 Fig. 3 Profiles of awareness toward work classified by both of the two groups and results of the statistical test (t-test) Table 4 Factor analysis for awareness toward work

8 Table 5(a) Relationship among the four types of commuting clothes (traditional business suits, soft suits, jackets and no ties), and awareness of business suits and ties

9 Table 5(b) Relationship among the four types of commuting clothes and awareness toward work Table 5(c) Differences of the mean scores of the four types in the main question items of the first factor Table 5(d) Differences of the mean scores of the four types in the main question items of the third factor

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