보육시설 활동복에 대한 어머니들의 태도 연구

A Study on the Mothers' Attitude toward uniform for Preschool Children

The purpose of this study is to investigate the design elements to design functional and creative clothing for preschool children emphasizing the physical, psychological and aesthetic developments. Data were collected from 262 mothers of 2~7 aged children, residing Pucheon and Seoul. The results of empirical studies were summarized as follows: 1) The clothing aspects considered important by mothers, in order of frequency, were: utility, price, child's attitude, comfort, symbolic, brand, fashionability, design. 2) Children's mothers considered more important, easiness for the child to put on and take off, the amount of clothing necessary for comfortable temperature, comfort of clothing rather than design and fashionability for children's kindergarten life. Mothers seem satisfactory about children's uniform at kindergarten. 3) Preschool children like some aspects of clothing. These were, in order of importance, were: color, activity, cartoon character, texture, prettiness, decoration detail.