• ISBN13: 9780857854674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Fashion & Textile
• Publisher: Fairchild
• Publisher Imprint: Fairchild
• Publication Date: December 12, 2015
• Pages: 480
• Original Price: 55.0 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1220 grams

Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a worker’s efficiency on the job or increasing body function. Watkins and Dunne present technical material using clear, simple language that can be readily understood by beginning design students with no science or engineering background. Building on the groundbreaking text by Watkins, Clothing: The Portable Environment, this text covers a full range of factors involved in designing functional clothing: protection from thermal, impact and other environmental hazards; enhancing movement and visibility and increasing body function with smart clothing; designing clothing for people with handicaps and designing protective clothing for groups such as the military, who face multiple hazards. Functional Clothing Design focuses on the full range of activities needed to develop functional clothing―from analysis of user needs to choosing appropriate materials to design and design evaluation. The text includes case studies throughout as well as new content on smart textiles and all the latest developments in wearable technology. Designers and others seeking clothing solutions to problems in many fields will find a common language linking a number of disciplines through which they can explore both problems and solutions.

Susan M. Watkins is a Professor Emeritus of Apparel Design at Cornell University. She is widely considered to be the founder of the discipline of functional apparel design and was the author of the first textbook in the field, Clothing: the Portable Environment. This text was first published in 1984 and revised in 1995 and has been translated into Japanese and Korean. It has been used by academic programs and government research laboratories around the world. She is a Fellow of the International Textiles and Apparel Association; held the Tyner Eminent Scholar Chair at the Florida State University from 1999-2000; is the subject of a biography in the Encyclopedia of Human Ecology and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Minnesota in 2014. She is currently Designer and Manager of Portable Environments, LLC, a consulting company focused on protective clothing design.

Lucy E. Dunne is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she sits on the faculty of Apparel Design, Product Design, and Human Factors and Ergonomics, as well as holding affiliate membership in the graduate faculties of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Institute for Health Informatics. She holds BS and MA degrees from Cornell University in Textiles and Apparel, an AAS in Electronic Technology from Tompkins-Cortland Community College, and a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin. Her research is focused on wearability and textile-based wearable technology and explores new functionality in apparel, human-device interface, production and manufacture, and human factors of wearable products. In 2013, Dr. Dunne received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and the NASA Silver Achievement Medal for her work with functional clothing and wearable technology.