Mirror Image of the World Market.

The GDS Shoe Fair, held in Dusseldorf, Germany, is the world's largest footwear exhibition. The March 1998 show featured exhibitors from 47 different countries. Autumn/winter styles for 1998-1999 were less heavy and chunky than last year's square and platform styles. Narrow welts, curvy shapes, pointed toes, narrower heels, and asymmetric..

Numerical simulation of the effective thermal conductivity of wet clothing materials

Clothing materials may be considered composite materials composed of fiber, air, and moisture. for this paper, effective thermal conductivities of wet clothing materials were anlayzed numerically using a proposed heat transfer model. The following simplifications were introduced. The clothing material fiber is woven with a single yarn, th..

Sportswear 2000-interpreting fabric trends

Promostyl, the Paris-based fashion and design bureau, has just published its Sport and Street trend books for winter 1999/2000. These analyse youth culture and details, as well as logos, prints and colours. Intelligent fabrics and multi-functional garments offering greater comfort and a feeling of well-being are among key trends.

Wastewater solutions for the blue jeans processing industry

Wastewater producers are seeking more cost-effective wastewater treatment methodologies designed to meet increasingly restrictive municipal discharge criteria. A dual goal is reducing their domestic water demand through recycling as the cost of water continues to rise. Effective but relatively inexpensive wastewater treatment systems that..

Factors affecting seam slippage

Clothing macnufacturing is the last link in a long and complicated process by which two dimensional fabrics are transformed into three-dimensional garments by sewing the fabric pieces together. However, whatever the quality of the fabric is, if the sewing operation is not performed appropriately, the resultant garment will be of inferior ..

Wrinkle free now carefree - new Pucker Free technology improves shirt seams

Hong Kong - based skirt maker TAL Apparel Ltd, has patented Pucker Free seam technology, a new seam-sealing technology. It involves inserting a bonding tape between adjoining fabric panels that make up the seam, which is melted during the manufacturing process. The resultant garment does not need to be dry cleaned or ironed and starched a..

Opportunities and potential of Lenzing Modal in leisure- and sportswear (German) (Chancen und Potentiale von Lenzing Modal in Sport- und Freizietbekleidung)

According to current market research world demand for leisure and sportswear will increase in the coming years. Heightened health consciousness is expected to create new freetime activities which will require confortable and fashionable clothing. Combinations of synthetic fibres with breathable materials are very successful due to their c..

Complete Sweater Production Process.

Research conducted jointly between the Reutlingen College of Technology and H. Stoll integrated several making-up operations into the flat knitting machine. The comprehensive configuration for a complete product consists of preliminary stages and transition courses up to the tubular waistband; knitting the tubular waistband for reglan sle..

effect of fabric composition on energy demand in finishing, laundering, and drying

a recent report by a group of yale university researchers calculated that polyester/cotton garments (e. g. , shirts) containing 50 polyester should use 30 less energy for their manufacture and maintenance than comparable cotton garments. this value includes the projected energy demands for production or growth of the respective fibers thr..

cutting buff costs with treated polyester cloth

tremendous savings in buff cost and compound usage have been made using special chemical impregnated polyester-cotton buffing wheels, which are now available from all the major buff manufacturers. because this product is substantially different in many of its characteristics from cotton buffs, special considerations have to be given in th..