Comfort of clothing and product development

Author: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: With societal progress, the function of clothing is no longer limited to warmth, fashion, or aesthetics. Clothing comfort has risen to become a universal requirement for dressing, highlighting the new lifestyle concept of the 21st century—green and comfortable. The author, standing at the forefront of global research on clothing comfort, provides a systematic and insightful elaboration on this field using extensive data and rich experimental results from psychology, neurophysiology, thermal physiology, and dynamic thermal and moisture transfer in clothing. This book offers compelling theoretical foundations for the in-depth and comprehensive development of new textile products and opens forward-looking new perspectives for enhancing the added value of textiles and accurately positioning the market. It is an invaluable interdisciplinary applied theoretical monograph. This book is intended for researchers, product development and design personnel in the fields of textiles and clothing, as well as serving as a reference for university faculty and students, manufacturers, and business professionals.