Influence of Physical Properties of Wool Fabrics on the Poor Appearance of Jacket

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated how the physical properties of wool woven fabrics influenced the good or poor appearance of suit jackets. We measured physical properties (tensile, shear, bending and compression properties measured by the KES system, dimensional change and formability) of twenty kinds of wool woven fabrics which had some poor appearances. And we discussed the relationship between the physical properties of wool woven fabrics and the appearance evaluation results of suit jackets evaluated by specialists using the discriminant analysis. From the result, it was found that appearance at the seam part (Z 1) was influenced by shear property, compression property and formability, and appearance at the front part (Z 2) was by shearing hysteresis and formability.