荷齋日記 로 본 개항기 의생활 문화

Abstract

This article aims at understanding the clothing culture of the period of opening a port. For research, this paper selected the HaJae’s diary and westerner’s perception from photo and art works, and on the evidence of it,The results of study are as follows:1. More than 80 clothing-related items and the prices are mentioned on the diary. Numerous items amongst these are records for fabric, which will help textile research during the period. 2. There were both the unintended exposure and the concealment in which women showed their breasts and wore a kind of long hood and a head-dress in those days. 3. The ordinance prohibiting topknots were often violated at first because of Confucius ideology and resistance to Japan. As a result, demand for the mang-geon (headband) decreased followed by supplies, which eventually made the headband to be sold at high price or found with difficulty. 4. Due to trade induced influx of western fabrics and ordinance which required people to wear colored clothes, by 1886, western chemical dyes were already being imported together with Japanese dyes and Indigo. As we have seen, even if the HaJae’s dairy and the foreigner journals were reviewed on objective point of view, it is a very important data to understand daily life, the used articles and clothes culture during the opening of a port. If this result of research is used for a film or a drama which makes the age as a background like the contents, it would be used well as data to bring more sense of reality into the ordinary life style and setting the situation of the times.