Clothing Comfort- Physiological Status and Psychological Status

The primary need of people to dress has changed as time passed, because different high-tech fibers,yarns, fabrics, finishing applications, trends and society influences have completely changed. Welfare andcomfort properties have become decisive components to make a product appreciated and successful. Thispaper presents the detailed explanation of clothing comfort, its subgroups and also the Physiological statusand psychological status of the people.Clothing also known as clothes, apparel and attire is items worn on the body. Clothing is typicallymade of fabrics or textiles but over time has included garments made from animal skin or other thin layersof materials put together. The wearing of comfort clothing is mostly restricted to human beings and is afeature of all human societies. Comfort or being comfortable is a sense of physical or psychological ease,often characterized as a lack of hardship. Persons who are lacking in comfort are uncomfortable, orexperiencing discomfort. A degree of psychological comfort can be achieved by recreating experiences thatare associated with pleasant. Persons who are surrounded with things that provide psychological comfortmay be described as being "in their comfort zone". Because of the personal nature of positive associations,psychological comfort is highly subjective. As the year goes the word comfort is been used in all areas suchas food, work, people and clothing.Thermal comfort is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environmentand is assessed by subjective evaluation. The human body will release excess heat into the environment, sothe body can continue to operate. The heat transfer is proportional to temperature difference. Maintaining thisstandard of thermal comfort for occupants is one of the important goals of HVAC (heating, ventilation,and air conditioning) design engineers. And in designing of clothes is the most important goal of a fashiondesigner.There are six primary factors that directly affect thermal comfort that can be grouped in twocategories: personal factors - because they are characteristics of the occupants - and environmentalfactors - which are conditions of the thermal environment. The former are metabolic rate and clothing level,the latter are air temperature, mean radiant temperature, air speed and humidity. Even if all these factorsmay vary with time, standards usually refer to a steady state to study thermal comfort, just allowing limitedtemperature variations.The study was conducted to know the responses about comfort clothing in Physiological status andpsychological status acceptance. Since there are large variations from person to person in termsof physiological and psychological satisfaction, it is hard to find an optimal temperature for everyone in aABSTRACT62 International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technologygiven space. Survey is been collected to define conditions that will be found comfortable for a specifiedpercentage of occupants, being comfortable is a sense of physical or psychological factors.Understanding clothing comfort, Need and consumer trends basic and universal need of consumers inclothing is comfort and they look for good feel and comfort when they buy clothing and other textile materials.Clothing is very important in our life that we use every day to obtain physiological and psychological comfortand also to ensure physical conditions around our body suitable for survival. Therefore, it is extremelyimportant for the survival of human beings and improvement of the quality of our life to have goodunderstanding of the fundamentals of clothing comfort. From the viewpoint of the manufacturers of clothingand textile materials, understanding of clothing comfort has substantial financial implications in the effort tosatisfy the needs and wants of consumers in order to obtain sustainable competitive advantages in modernconsumer markets. Consumer always expects some additional functional qualities from the clothes theypurchase. Clothing is manufactured in a wide range of thermal, tactile and physical properties to meetconsumer needs. Depending on the nee. and expectations of the consumer's, the clothing and textilemanufacturers provide wide range of options to enhance human comfort. For example, clothing made fromblends and natural fibres are preferred to man-made fibres for all comfort attributes except smoothness orwoven fabric are preferred to knits for smoothness, thickness and openness. To understand the basics ofclothing comfort, sensory tools as well as the equipment’s to evaluate the comfort related characteristics oftextile materials have been developed. Large number of studies has been carried out and many equipmentare developed in the textile and clothing area such as mechanical, thermal and surface testing, so as toevaluate the related physical properties, but the body between measurement and the consumer feeling ofcomfort are still difficult to establish.Consumers want everything from the clothing, i.e. it should look good, feel good, perform well, saidlike their clothing to match with their chosen attitudes, roles and images. Consumers are now allowing touch,smell, intuition, and emotion to influence their decision on clothing selection more than their aesthetic sense.Asa result, great importance is being attributed to the wearing experience and thus comfort is beingreinforced as a key parameter in clothing. It is also true that requirements of consumers on comfort changeswith products and situations. Clearly, understanding and satisfying the needs of consumer towards clothingproducts are crucial for the long-term survival and growth of clothing and textile demand. Understanding andenhancement of clothing comfort is definitely one of the important issues.