COMFORT IN DEFENSE CLOTHING

Textile engineering

Defense textiles have to exhibit many unique performance characteristics due to the diverse hostile conditions and wide range of threats under which it has to function. Although the functional requirements for this clothing are of major interest, comfort aspects of the same have to be considered seriously during designing of garment and selection of basic textile material, especially for hot climatic conditions. Because the ultimate success of combat troop would much depend on the comfort, mobility and protection provided by the particular garment. The clothing comfort is an extremely complex phenomenon, which may lead, inevitably, to incompatibility with the protection requirements, posing a serious challenge for the textile technologist and the garment designer. In this paper, we have discussed the important comfort properties in particular reference to the hot climate weather conditions in relation with defense protective clothing. There are various innovative techniques by which comfort properties of garment can be enhanced. These include the use of various types of new generation fibres, engineered yarn and fabric constructions as well as advance finishing techniques. This paper deals with some of the above aspects of improving the comfort in defense textiles.

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