In this paper, it was observed that the influences of social environment that had been saturated by the modern awareness and western culture effected largely on clothing. Also it was studied how and by what environmental factors, the costume during t...
In this paper, it was observed that the influences of social environment that had been saturated by the modern awareness and western culture effected largely on clothing. Also it was studied how and by what environmental factors, the costume during the enlightening period was accepted and developed in Korean relative to social cultural environment. In this research, the emphasis was placed on the process of changing to western clothing, especially the influence of Group Clothing on the general women`s clothing. Therefore, the types of group clothing and its influences were studied. In this study, the types of group clothing recalled were modern women`s clothing, missionary women`s clothing, professional women`s such as nurse uniforms, school girls` uniforms and the invention of women`s sports wear. And lastly, it was searched for the direction of developent in apparels. From the above mentioned, we can conclude that the clothing is inseparable from social and cultural Invironments and foreign affairs of politics at the time. Also it is considered that the types of group styles were the necessary happenings in the early stage of modern society. Because of historical situation in Korean, the western clothing style had taken place in a short period of time. However, Korean women`s clothing which had been centerred around group clothing was considered to have changed from Korean traditional costume to western clothing by rational decisions of modern awareness instead of sudden change from traditional clothing to western clothing by indiscrete acceptance of western culture.