Abstract
It is usual technique in dress making to make agreement between the warp direction of fabric and the lengthwise direction of the clothes. In these days, however, this agreement is not maintained very often because of special designs of clothes.
In the present paper, the authors have studied the effect of the anisotropic tensile properties of fabrics on transformation of clothes during making and wearing.
In an effort to find out how the tensile, shearing and bending transformation is made, slacks and skirts for the standard body form were sewed using the material vertically, horizontally, and diagonally. The extent of the transformation produced on the clothes during wearing was measured.
Through the experiments, the authors have found out that there is no significant difference in the magnitude of the transformation during wearing between warp and weft directions, but the transformation in bias direction is significantly larger than the above two directions.
It is apparent that the anisotropic tensile properties of fabrics affect the transformation of the fabrics during making and wearing, and have close relation to how one feels in the clothes.
