People’s psychological needs are becoming more important with society’s development and lifestyle change. Pets, as companions and family members of human beings, provide people with emotional support. Under the new relationship between people and pets, pet garment has become a popular way to enhance communication and interaction between people and animals and has commercial value. However, there is a lack of research focusing on developing pet garments that meet pet dog owners’ emotional needs. This paper takes the design of a pet dog knitted garment as an example. It combines Kansei Engineering (KE) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to guide the design practice. It introduces the method of a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to verify the matching degree between the designed pet dog knitted garment style and the Kansei Image of the pet dog owner. The study aims to explore a scientific design method for pet garments to meet the emotional needs of the pet dog owner. The research results show that combining KE and AHP can effectively realise the perceptual demand and make the design decision more scientific and reasonable.

In the context of an ageing population, the research and development of elderly women’s clothing has been widely discussed, and its clothing market has a good prospect. However, research on the design of T-shirts is mainly aimed at young people, and there is still a lack of research on the design of spring and autumn T-shirts specifically for elderly women. This paper conducts on-site research to understand the physical characteristics and clothing needs of elderly women and selects elderly obese women as the research object. The spring and autumn T-shirts are designed using a fake two-piece structural style combined with imitation woven, knitted fabric, and the rationality of the spring and autumn T-shirt design is verified through 3D virtual trial wear.

Textile jewellery is a type of jewellery that has a structure or texture similar/identical to textile products. Although the practice of textile jewellery is evident, there is a lack of a comprehensive overview of the techniques, methods, and materials involved. The confusion on how to apply different fabrication techniques creates difficulty in making metal textile jewellery. The review, therefore, summarises, classifies, and compares the types, techniques, materials, and structures used to make metal textile jewellery. The analysis results show that it is essential to understand the effects produced by different processes. Textile jewellery structures with similar styles can be produced by very different processes, which can be easily confused. This paper clarifies the differences between the processes to help designers more quickly and accurately select the right process for making jewellery.

Given the time-consuming and costly measurement of heat-moisture comfort indexes and the difficulty of quantifying contact comfort, 20 sports fabrics were tested for air permeability, moisture permeability, thermal resistance, moisture resistance, sensory evaluation indicators and 18 mechanical parameters. Then, the correlation between contact comfort indexes and mechanical parameters was analysed. On this basis, multiple linear regression prediction models for thermal resistance, moisture resistance and contact comfort indexes of sports fabrics were established. The results show that the thermal resistance of sports fabrics can be predicted by Compression work (CW) and Compression recovery rate (CRR) indicators, and the moisture resistance can be predicted by Bending work in the warp (BWa) and CRR indicators. The smoothness of sports fabrics can be predicted by CW and Compression stiffness (CAR), the softness by Bending work in weft (BWe) and CAR, the warmth by CW, BWe and Surface friction coefficient in weft (SFCe), and the combined feeling by Bwe and CAR. The models were also validated and are considered to have practical implications for companies and consumers when assessing and improving the comfort of sports fabrics.

Generation Z refers to those born between 1996 and 2010. Generation Z is entering the workforce and becoming the leading consumer market force. Studying the consumption intentions of Generation Z toward domestic sports brand apparel can significantly benefit the brand’s future business development. This study employs a questionnaire survey and incorporates factors from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the factors influencing Generation Z consumers’ online purchasing intentions for Chinese sports brand apparel. The results indicate that the behavioral intentions of Generation Z towards domestic sports brands are significantly positively correlated with subjective norms, perceived behavioral norms, usefulness, and ease of use.

Human beings depend on vision to obtain external information from their surroundings. It is, therefore, difficult for visually impaired people to perceive visual sensations in their daily lives. Currently, there are many related designs for the convenience of visually impaired people in urban construction and daily use. Still, little research has been done on their clothing design, especially designs that combine their functional and emotional requirements. In this study, interviews were conducted to examine the difficulties visually impaired people face in dressing and their functional and emotional requirements for clothing. Based on the design investigation of visually impaired people and the interview survey on their requirements for clothing, this study also explored the application of the sensory compensation design concept (mainly tactile compensation) in clothing design. As a result, four clothing styles were designed to meet their physical and psychological needs. It is hoped that the study will provide a way of thinking about clothing design for visually impaired people and call for more attention and help.

Fire behavior of textiles varies depending on fiber composition, manufacturing process and any additional treatments applied. Such variables can contribute to significant differences in the flammability making it difficult to estimate the risk of fire ignition. Clothing fires can cause burns with minor injuries and burns leading to serious injuries that may require hospitalization. The elderly and children are especially at risk since they may not recognize the dangers of a clothing fire and how to react quickly to extinguish the flames. Health and safety professionals are frequently asked to recommend reducing such risks. However, information about the flammability properties of non-FR treated clothing worn by the public is generally not available. The objective of this research program was to develop a simplified method for defining the flammability of commercially available fabrics. 50 samples were tested including Cotton, Wool, Silk, Nylon and Polyester. Changes in the weight of a sample resulting from combustion including the time involved in the combustion cycle was used as a indictor of the total heat generated by the fire and the risk and severity of a burn injury. The results showed that the Cotton and Wool fabric samples created the highest risk of burn injury while the Polyester fabric created the lowest risk. These conclusions are based on two criteria: Total time associated with a combustion cycle and the loss of fabric mass during the combustion cycle. The proposed method can be carried out using a standard laboratory fume-hood, a precision weight scale and a stopwatch.