The purpose of this study was to investigate the requirement of exercise wear for the elderly. The elderly physiology (i.e. rotation angle of shoulder and elbow joint) was reproduced by joint supporters. Ten subjects within the age range of twenty - twenty three years dressed four exercise wears of different types and evaluated easiness of dressing. And the dressing motion was measured by three dimensional image processing. From the result, it was found that (1) the elderly tool reproduced the elderly physiology within the generation of seventy - eighty years, (2) the sleeve fabric of exercise wear influenced largely on subjective easiness of dressing for the elderly, (3) in comparing the requirement time of dressing between young condition and supposed elderly condition among the four samples, the pullover type and the zipper type with long sleeves increased 28% and 5.8%, (4) the muscular activation of pullover type with long sleeves were larger than that of zipper type with long sleeves.

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