There is a clear and transparent relationship between the utilisation of anthropometric data and the woven garment construction processes. Knitwear manufactured on flat bed machinery however, presents practitioners with a very different set of parameters regarding the use of body measurement data to achieve satisfactory fit. Innovative developments in knitting technology create additional compl...

Virtual reality technology has the realistic significance in the applied research of the garment field. In this paper, we present the central application fields for cloth simulation. Furthermore, describe the method for design and implementation the 3D Qipao Display System. This System can fully demonstrate the characteristics of patterns of the classic Qipao. In contrast with the traditional d...

Modern technology makes garments smart, which can help a wearer to manage in specific situations by improving the functionality of the garments. The personal heating garment (PHG) widens the operating temperature range of the garment and improves its protection against the cold. This paper describes several kinds of PHGs worldwide; their advantages and disadvantages are also addressed. Some cha...

This paper combines insights from the literature on accounting inscriptions with studies on rhetoric to explore why and how accounting sustains processes of innovation and value creation. In doing so, we build on previous studies that have explored the transformative capacities of accounting in action to further investigate the fine line between the enabling power of accounting and the incomple...

Integration of technology into standard apparel poses many difficult problems: for the consumer, integration in such a way that technology does not create physical or social discontinuities, and for the manufacturer, development of a production process for integrating technology into apparel. In this paper, we seek to specify the component factors of these problems, and propose a solution withi...

Cooling of thermosensitive patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) can improve clinical symptoms. In order to study the effectiveness of an advanced lightweight cooling-garment technology based on aquatic evaporation, a single-blinded balanced crossover study was performed on 20 patients with an Expanded Disability Status Scale score < or =6.5. The results using a tight-cuff cooling-garment proto...

This paper addresses the problem of computing planar patterns for compression garments. In the garment industry, the compression garment has been more and more widely used to retain a shape of human body, where certain strain (or normal pressure) is designed at some places on the compression garment. Variant values and distribution of strain can only be generated by sewing different 2D patterns...

Recommender Systems are traditionally been used in online environments. The present study focuses on factors affecting consumers’ acceptance in recommendation systems that will be used in traditional stores. For this purpose, we have developed a garment recommendation system applying and evaluating the aforementioned factors through an experiment. The main insights of the study indicate that co...

Within Leapfrog project, the general task is to design an effective and efficient manufacturing solution coping with the needs of the mass customization competitive scenario, overcoming the limitations which have so far prevented the automation of the garment assembly, through a comprehensive and general (‘holistic’) redesign of the cloth manufacturing process properly exploiting flexible autom...