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CLOTHING PRACTICES OF KOREAN FEMALE IMMIGRANTS IN CHICAGO
Author(s) -
KWON YOONHEE
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of consumer studies and home economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 0309-3891
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-6431.1982.tb00611.x
Subject(s) - immigration , clothing , abandonment (legal) , demography , gender studies , demographic economics , geography , sociology , political science , economics , law , archaeology
The relationship between the process of cultural assimilation reflected in the clothing practices of Korean female immigrants and their pre‐immigration and post‐immigration factors were investigated. This was done by examining the relationships between frequency of wearing western dress over Korean traditional dress, the rate of transition from Korean made dress to American dress, and Korean female immigrants’ pre‐immigration and post‐immigration factors. The data were collected from 219 Korean female immigrants in Chicago during the summer of 1978. The regression analysis revealed that the frequency of usage of western dress over Korean traditional dress was more significantly related to the pre‐immigration factors than the post‐immigration factors. The transition from Korean made dress to American dress was found to be more significantly related to the post‐immigration factors than the pre‐immigration factors. This finding suggests that the sudden change of cultural environment has a definite impact on the abandonment of Korean traditional dress and transition from Korean made western dress to American dress. The finding also leads to the conclusion that the usage of traditional dress is more affected by the nature of occasions, special versus non‐special, than the difference of social contacts between Korean and American.