日本における被服衛生学の現状と展望

抄録

The establishment and development of the science of clothing hygiene in Japan were reviewed, and the researches which had been carried out since World War II were summarized into the following items:
1. Studies on physiological and hygienic significance of the clothing in human body temperature regulation.
1) Skin temperature and the methods of measurements.
2) Clothing climate under comfortable conditions.
3) Thermal insulation properties of clothing and their measurements.
4) Analyses of factors affecting the thermal insulation properties of clothing; functional properties of clothing materials, design, f ittness, number of layers and weights.
2. Studies on the uncomfortable factors caused by clothing.
1) Effects of clothing pressure on human body.
2) Lasion due to physical and chemical features of clothing, especially of newly developed artificial materials.
The University Chartering Standard Committie in 1976 has decided that clothing hygiene should be one of five essential subjects for the clothing science course. Recently, the number of people who are interested in clothing hygiene from other fields such as physical science, technology and physiology has increased, therefore the physiological and hygienic studies of the clothing will develop progressively in the future.