Principles of Clothing Comfort and Their Use in Evaluation of Sensorial and Thermal Comfort of Men's Casual Jacket

In this paper, principles of sensorial and thermo-physiological comfort of clothing are briefly explained, and as example of their application, experimental determination of a wearing comfort of men's casual jacket is presented. The measured parameters involve thermal and evaporation resistance, thermal contact feeling, shear and bending stiffness of each layer including the interlining and lining, as well as the properties of the entire textile sandwiches. The used measuring instruments were PERMETEST, ALAMBETA and KES FB1 & FB2. Then the comfort parameters of individual fabrics and parameters of the related sandwiches were displayed by means of column diagrams. These diagrams also involve the algebraically summarized parameters of individual fabrics. In most cases, total values of the algebraically summarized parameters of individual fabrics to some degree exceeded the parameters of the sandwiched (compacted, laminated) fabrics.