Relationship of clothing comfort to motion ergonomy

Nowadays, special demands/properties which are required from garments by each consumer, differ greatly between themself. However, many consumers meet in a common point and this is comfort. Comfort is a subjective concept which depends on personal and enviromental factors, and can be evaluated personally. Generally if a garment is comfortable for a consumer; its meant this is functional and ergonomical for user. In this experimental study; with fixed fabric and sewing features, effects of different patterns for clothing comfort and motion ergonomy have been searched/analysed. Anthropometry, ergonomy and comfort have been scrutinised as the main sciences which effect clothing comfort. Commercially available 4 different pants patterns have been analysed in sitting, walking and running positions, degrees of provided comfort have been determined by scoring system and then the results are analyzed and interpreted. Concordance of point tables were calculated by statistical formulas. And finally regarding to demands of the users, a new pants pattern was designed by considering of the analysed model which provides the highest comfort level.