Clothing comfort: interaction of thermal, ventilation, construction and assessment factors

Abstract

A comprehensive review is presented of the present state of our knowledge in the science of clothing comfort. Information is given on thermal comfort factors and concepts, physiological aspects, use of acoustic testing to predict clothing comfort properties, comfort finishing (synthetic fabrics), cotton and cotton blends with comfort stretch, analysis of comfort's gestalt, psycho-physical and neurophysiological studies of somatic sensibility, psychological scaling, subjective fabric and garment comfort assessment techniques, interaction of clothing and environment, ventilation of clothing from body motion, body motion and convective/evaporative heat exchange, measurement and prediction for clothing designs, and air exchange in lightweight cloth coats.