栃木県における農村の主婦の被服生活について : 主として結婚年次の期間別による実態調査報告

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These investigations were made for the purpose of realizing how housewives in the country have managed various clothing problems these fifty years. Three hundred and forty three housewives in farming regions in Tochigi Prefecture were subjected to the investigations. Tochigi Prefecture, with two fifths of its population engaged in farming, is rich in agricultural products, and was chosen as best suited for the investigations. We hope that this report will be a useful reference material in the study of clothing problems for the betterment of our way of living. Items investigated are as follows : 1. Age of marriage The marriage age is generally 20 to 25, which shows thata a girl at most active age is wanted as a bride, mainly to obtain labor efficiency. The idea that to take a wife means merely to add to working power of the household, still prevails in some farming districts of Japan. 2. Clothes in the possession of a bride Generally speaking, a bride is rather well supplied with clothing, and fashion of the moment is modestly taken in the color and style of the clothes if it be fit for the life of rural communites. 3. Articles of a bride's outfit A few chests of drawers and wardrobes are generally found among the articles of a bride's trousseau, because in most Japanese farmhouses there are only a few closets to keep their clothses in. There is a tendency on the part of parents to spend too much money on their daughter's trousseau in the excess of parental care. 4. Later uses of clothes prepared or matrimony Housewives have very little oppotunity for wearing their dress-suits and Sunday suits, which are sometimes re-cut into children's clothes or dyed again properly colored for further use. 5. Dresses and work day clothes Busy farm work compels to buy ready-made clothes, but a thorough mastery of the skill in making workday clothes are very much required of housewives in order to save extra clothing expenses. 6. Clothing expenses and ways of purchasing clothes The small amount of clothing expenses shows that married women have to stay mostly on the farm with little occasion to wear their Sunday suits and that they can hardly afford to buy expensive dresses owing to the costly upkeep of the farm implements. In purchasing clothes, however, they pay cash down in most cases, but sometimes the payment is put off till the harvest time. 7. Working hours per day and ways of spending leisure hours They work more than tweleve hours a day in their busiest season. Leisure hours are spent usually in talking about the day's work at the fireside or in the company of their neighbors.
日本家庭科教育学会の論文
1963-03-01

栃木県における農村の主婦の被服生活について : 主として結婚年次の期間別による実態調査報告

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