The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceptual attributes of
costume colour and the colour value changes. In this study, “gorgeous” and “plain” as words for
description of human colour emotion were used, and costume picture samples and colour piece
samples of same colours with 40 hues and 9 levels of values were evaluated on emotion variables
by 32 subjects in the behavioural trials. The results showed that the colours of medium values
have the most gorgeous emotion, and presented sensitivity to subjects during the evaluation of
“gorgeousness”, the RT (response time) of costume is less than the RT of colour pieces, it is easier
to make judgment on colour emotion in costume, while the lower-value-colour and the
higher-value-colour reduce the effect on “gorgeous” emotion.
