The shape of apparel is one of the most important elements in fashion design, for example, the three-dimensional shape of apparel can be quite creative and fashionable. The current technologies for creating the three-dimensional shape of apparel are many, but have their limitations in dealing with various fabrics, particularly light and soft fabrics. This article presents a new method to rapidly create three-dimensional shape of apparel for avoiding the aforementioned disadvantages. The method combines thermal bonding of thermoplastic polyurethane film and vacuum forming. In this study, 12 kinds of commercial fabrics were selected and then tested. All these fabrics were first bonded to thermoplastic polyurethane film and then rapidly applied to the vacuum forming machine to form the three-dimensional mold-like shape. This research analyzed the factors of molding a fabric to a good three-dimensional shape of apparel and the relative tests to be carried out for validating its stability for the selected fabric samples. There are two main contributions of this study. The first is to propose a more effective method for three-dimensional shape of apparel in fashion design. The second is to provide useful information for fabric selection and determination of bonding temperature in molding.
The understanding of preferences toward fabrics is an important step of understanding consumer behavior of apparel. This article presents a work to study the preferences toward summer-shirt fabrics and their characteristics, particularly the gender impact, visual impact, and tactile impact toward the preference of fabrics are separately studied. Furthermore, the stability of the preference from different genders was investigated as well. To achieve these goals, the visual system and the tactile system were employed for testing male and female preferences of fabrics and the characteristics of fabrics. The two contributions of this work are as follows: (1) the factors which impact the preference of a fabric were figured out, and their relationship become a good reference for an apparel designer, and with them, a piece of apparel with preferred fabrics is able to be produced; and (2) the textile development regarding the visual sense and tactile sense will become more targeted and customized in favoring different customers.
The proper assessment of aesthetics and comfort is an important step before launching a new type of apparel. Most current works on this assessment are qualitative and hard to be applied in practical to improve apparel design. In this study, we proposed two quantitative mappings from pattern design parameters to degree of aesthetics and pattern design parameters to degree of comfort for assessing aesthetics and comfort of apparel, and particularly, women's pants have been investigated. Statistical analysis was employed in the mappings' development. An experiment was conducted as a validation for the mappings. Two major conclusions are drawn from this study. The first is that these mappings enable to extract a more advanced pattern for apparel design after the iterative pattern revision. The second is that these mappings are able to be digitalized and then the traditional method of observing feedbacks of aesthetics and comfort for an apparel product can be updated into a more efficient and low-cost one.
The superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic membranes based on textile possessed excellent separation e ciency and anti-oil fouling property, but the poor stability caused by nanoparticles (NPs) shedding had severely limited the practical application in oily wastewater treatment. In this paper, a feasible method to prepare the robust membranes based on cotton fabric (CF) decorated with TiO 2 NPs and citric acid (CA) using micro-dissolution method was reported. The CF were slightly dissolved in a NaOH/urea solution at low temperature, allowing the incorporation of the TiO 2 NPs into the super cial layers of the fabrics. Then, the vacuum ltration process facilitated the TiO 2 NPs uniformly deposition on the CF surface. In the subsequent coagulation process, the TiO 2 NPs were rmly anchored on the fabric surface. Then, the esteri cation reaction between CA and cotton was carried out to impart the fabric with superior hydrophilic properties. The prepared membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric analysis (TG). Additionally, the separation e ciency and stability of membranes were systematically evaluated. The results of SEM indicated that the TiO 2 NPs were uniformly anchored on the membrane surface. The prepared membranes could not only separate traditional oil/water mixture but also treat complicated oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion with excellent separation e ciency. What's more, the membranes could withstand various harsh condition and repeated use. Therefore, the prepared TiO 2 /CA decorated membranes have the potential to be used in the practical oily wastewater treatment.
The superhydrophilic and underwater superoleophobic membranes based on textile possessed excellent separation efficiency and anti-oil fouling property, but the poor stability caused by nanoparticles (NPs) shedding had severely limited the practical application in oily wastewater treatment. In this paper, a feasible method to prepare the robust membranes based on cotton fabric (CF) decorated with TiO 2 NPs and citric acid (CA) using micro-dissolution method was reported. The CF were slightly dissolved in a NaOH/urea solution at low temperature, allowing the incorporation of the TiO 2 NPs into the superficial layers of the fabrics. Then, the vacuum filtration process facilitated the TiO 2 NPs uniformly deposition on the CF surface. In the subsequent coagulation process, the TiO 2 NPs were firmly anchored on the fabric surface. Then, the esterification reaction between CA and cotton was carried out to impart the fabric with superior hydrophilic properties. The prepared membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermogravimetric analysis (TG). Additionally, the separation efficiency and stability of membranes were systematically evaluated. The results of SEM indicated that the TiO 2 NPs were uniformly anchored on the membrane surface. The prepared membranes could not only separate traditional oil/water mixture but also treat complicated oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion with excellent separation efficiency. What’s more, the membranes could withstand various harsh condition and repeated use. Therefore, the prepared TiO 2 /CA decorated membranes have the potential to be used in the practical oily wastewater treatment.
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