An analysis of waist-nipper factors that affect subjective feeling and physiological response - For the design of comfortable women's foundation garments

Abstract

To obtain fundamental data for designing comfortable women's foundation garments, we analyzed waist-nipper factors that affect subjective feeling (compressive feeling, comfort and silhouette-satisfaction) and physiological responses (heart rate, skin blood flow, skin and oral temperature) in terms of materials, structure, size and clothing pressure. Seven women were employed as subjects. The clothing pressure was not dependent on the tensile property of individual parts of the materials used for waist-nipper, but on the tensile property of the waist-nipper viewed as a composite object, including structure. The changes in physiological variables were smaller with the waist-nipper having a large non-stretch area than with that having a small non-stretch area. However, the former type of waist-nipper caused higher compressive feeling and discomfort. When the waist-nipper mostly composed of stretch materials were worn, size had great effects on clothing pressure, subjective feeling and physiological responses. The effects of clothing pressure on physiological responses were highest at the center of the abdomen.