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Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Spacesuits
Susan Watkins
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Description for Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Spacesuits
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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...
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857854674
SKU
V9780857854674
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Ref
99-1
About Susan Watkins
Susan M. Watkins is Professor Emeritus in Apparel Design from Cornell University, USA, and Designer and Manager of Portable Environments, LLC, a consulting company focused on protective clothing design. Lucy E. Dunne is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, where she sits on the faculty of Design, Housing, and Apparel and Human Factors and Ergonomics, as well as...
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I think it is a very good source for technical information and is a good introduction for the start of specific research. I see more cross over between functional and performance based garment design and ready to wear (sportswear apparel ) than ever before.
Lisa Hayes, Drexel University, US An excellent resource… The revision follows the logic and...
Read moreLisa Hayes, Drexel University, US An excellent resource… The revision follows the logic and...