This chapter is concerned with women working in the export-oriented readymade garment industry in Bangladesh. Although the majority of these women are located in what is officially classified as ‘the formal economy’, the nature of their contracts and their terms and conditions are more typical of work in the informal economy. Their situation illustrates the point made by a number of authors tha...

The fashion clothing industry is particularly subject to strong external pressure for sustainable behaviour and the increased outsourcing of manufacturing has created long, globally fragmented supply chains. Supply chain management (SCM) has come to the fore in this industry, as the way a firm designs and manages its supply chain can provide competitive advantage in a market focused on cost, sp...

sustainable purchasing and consuming clothes is a massive trend worldwide due to the great amount of production, its complications and also the active role of women; and is specifically so among young population of iran, though the country is moving towards sustainable development. this article aims to investigate the degree of awareness of the notion of sustainability and its impact on the pur...

The traditional apparel product development process is a typical iterative ‘optimization’ process that involves trial-and-error. In order to confirm the design and achieve a satisfactory fit, a number of repeated cycles of sample preparation, trial fitting and pattern alteration must be conducted. The process itself is time-consuming, costly, and dependent on the designer’s skills and experienc...

The first standards based on thermal manikin measurements were developed in the1980s. In the Nordic countries tests for thermal insulation measurements of sleepingbags and cold protective clothing were developed. Similar standards were publishedin Germany by DIN and in the US by ASTM. At a European level, EN 342describes test methods and requirements for cold protective clothing...

Following the growing interest in the further development of manikins to simulate human thermal behaviour more adequately, thermo-physiological human simulators have been developed by coupling a thermal sweating manikin with a thermo-physiology model. Despite their availability and obvious advantages, the number of studies involving these devices is only marginal, which plausibly results from t...

Fashion classification encompasses the identification of clothing items in an image. The field has applications in social media, e-commerce, and criminal law. In our work, we focus on four tasks within the fashion classification umbrella: (1) multiclass classification of clothing type; (2) clothing attribute classification; (3) clothing retrieval of nearest neighbors; and (4) clothing object de...