1995 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 43-52
From the viewpoints of temperature preservation, the existence of the air layer between various clothes (and the body surface) is considered to be an important element.
However, no reports have ever been made on the actual objective measurement of such air layer.
Measurement of air layer in the case of elementary schoolgirl's clothes was administered and hence this present report is made. Various clothes for different seasons were applied to a mannequin of standard characteristics for an upper grade elementary schoolgirl.
In measurement, a reading microscope was used to read the points that were indicated by laser type line-marker instrument. The dimensional characterisitics of five typical planes of various sections of the mannequin were thus obtained, from which the sizes of air layer between clothes were calculated.
The results may be summerized as follows :
1) The sizes of the air layer between clothes (and the body surface) were, 5mm or less for underwear, 15~25mm for middle and outer wears, and 30~50mm for overcoats.
2) The sizes of the air layer between clothes (and the body surface) for elementary schoolgirl's clothes, when compared with those for adults, were generally in similar measurement results.
