Clothing Comfort and Textile

China’s Textile and Clothing Industry

This study presents an analysis of China’s textile and clothing industry. Textile and clothing has been one of China’s traditional industries since 1949 and has remained one of the key industries in modern China. This industry has experienced dramatic reforms and reached high growth for a long period of time. China is the world’s largest exporter and producer of many products in this industry. ...

The Textile and Clothing Sector in Europe

RFID in textile and clothing manufacturing: technology and challenges

Introduction The rapid pace at which the technological innovations are being introduced in the world poses a potential challenge to the retailer, supplier, and enterprises. In the field of Information Technology (IT) there is a rapid growth in the last 30 years (Want 2006; Landt 2005). One of the most promising technological innovations in IT is radio frequency identification (RFID) (Dutta et a...

Heat Loss from the Upper Extremities and Clothing Thermal Comfort

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AVAs: Arteriovenous Anastomoses; HR: Heart Rate; RH: Relative Humidity; Ta: Ambient Temperature; Tre: Rectal Temperature; Tsk: Skin Temperature; Tes: Esophageal Temperature; CONT: Control Experiment; OCCL: Occlusion Experiment; Msw: Local Sweating Rate; LDF: Skin Blood Flow; MAP: Mean Arterial Pressure; TPR: Total Peripheral Resistanc...

The Case of the Danish Textile and Clothing Industry

Outsourcing and job losses to countries with lower wage costs are common to many Western countries, and are issues of great public concern due to their economic and social impact. This paper looks at the impact on labor of a dramatic change in the Danish textile and clothing (T&C) industry, causing large reductions in the total level of the employment. This development, which is well known in m...