2024 Volume 75 Issue 3 Pages 96-107
Young women evaluated five summer underwear shirts with controlled skin side, gauge, and fiber composition by touch and wear, and the requirements for knitted fabric design of comfortable summer underwear shirts were discussed. In addition, the touch and wear evaluations were discussed in relation to the properties of the knitted fabrics.
The results are as follows.
(1) Factor analysis of the wear evaluation items revealed a two-factor structure. The contribution of the “skin feel” factor was higher than that of the “heat” factor, suggesting that skin contact has a greater influence on the desirability of the underwear shirts.
(2) From the results of the wear evaluation, thinness, smoothness, and good air permeability were identified as requirements for properties of the knitted fabric that improve the comfort of summer underwear shirts.
(3) The touch evaluation was more sensitive to differences in “skin feel” than the wear evaluation and was correlated well with the basic properties of the knitted fabric. As for “heat,” both the touch and wear evaluations showed a low correlation with the basic characteristics, indicating that it was difficult to perceive differences within the range of the samples used in this study.
