Sensorial Comfort/Discomfort of Lingerie Based on Hand Assessment and Objective Evaluation

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between subjective assessments of overall sensorial comfort and bipolar hand attributes, and to predict subjective values with mechanical, surface and thermal characteristic values of lingerie fabrics. The tactile sensation of test samples was evaluated by consumers using the bipolar word pairs. A strong dependence of overall sensorial comfort on fabric soft/hard, smooth/rough and rigid/drapable was observed. Distribution of mechanical properties for these lingerie fabrics was rather smaller than that of women's thin dress fabrics. Therefore, heat, water, and air transmission properties, and surface characteristcs of fabrics were important parameters for the prediction of sensorial comfort of lingerie fabrics.