부산대학교 도서관

As mass media and internet develop and fashion trend becomes a tendency, today’s costumes change. With the introduction of western clothes at the end of Joseon Dynasty, our costume has undergone many changes and traditional and modern costumes have coexisted. In addition, wedding ceremony and formal dress introduced along with the Western civilizations have lost their Korean uniqueness and have conventionalized in a western manner. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to utilize traditional Hanbok (Korean clothes) in a modern style by applying it into the design of wedding dress in connection with the formative beauty of Korean tradition in an effort to improve western-oriented costume culture. This study examined a theoretical research based on previous research theses, books and various photo materials and an empirical research through an in-depth interviewing survey in the concrete utilization process. Its concrete content included the following: first, the study looked theoretically into the general characteristics of traditional female costumes and examined formal beauty in terms of their beauty of form and content. Second, the study figured out the design trend of domestic wedding dress through the in-depth interview preference survey and produced two pieces of wedding dresses by developing design corresponding to modern application. This study suggested a method of utilizing Korean traditional costumes by developing the design that could be used periodically in terms of reflecting wedding dress as well as of enhancing Korean uniqueness in wedding design, one of the fields in modern costume.