Comfort Properties of Textiles: A Review of Some Breakthroughs in Recent Research

The article critically reviews the recent research trends related to comfort characteristics of fabrics. The comfort properties of fabrics are of sensorial and non sensorial nature. Many researches have focussed on these aspects. Comparative studies on cotton and cotton/polyester blend fabrics woven in various designs have shown that cotton fabrics exhibit better comfort properties than their blend counterpart. Active sports wear is one area where comfort is crucial. In this regard the comfort properties of different bi layered knitted structures made from outer layer comprising of tencel yarn and inner layer of acrylic/microfiber polyester. Such an investigation is intended to largely help the researchers who are analysing the comfort characteristics of layered knitted fabrics for sports wear. Utilization of recycled polyester in the knit apparel industry is ever increasing but the characterization of knit apparel made from recycled polyester yarns is limited to mechanical and moisture management properties.