@article{oai:hirosaki.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005827, author = {Yasukawa, Akemi and Ozawa, Maho}, journal = {弘前大学教育学部紀要}, month = {Oct}, note = {Many people in Japan wear clothing made from knitted fabrics now and wear clothing made from woven fabrics until approximately fifty years ago. The factors of increase of elastic garments were nvestigated from the viewpoints of clothing performance, comfort of the clothing, cultural aspect and industrial aspect. The various easurement results of different fabrics indicate that the ifference between the properties of woven fabrics and knitted fabrics, and he difference between the properties of knitted cotton fabrics and nitted polyester fabrics. Further, the structure of the elastic oven fabrics was also investigated. It can be considered that the hanges in human sentiment, economic growth and development of technology affected each other and increased popularity of elastic fabrics in Japan.}, pages = {99--106}, title = {Factors of increase in demand of elastic garments in Japan}, volume = {122}, year = {2019} }