Do cooled women select soft or hard clothing?

H. E. Kim, H. Tokura, R. Nagashima, H. Sugiura, K. Nishizawa

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Abstract

1. 1. Subjects were studied at ambient temperatures (Ta) of 33, 29 and 25°C and allowed to select a T-shirt to wear and the temperature of a copper piping to hold on to. 2. 2. Five kinds of T-shirts were available for selection varying in texture from soft to hard. The choice of temperature for the copper piping was 24, 27, 30, 33, 36 or 39°C. 3. 3. Softer clothing and higher temperature of piping were preferred when Ta was decreased from 33 to 25°C. 4. 4. Wearing a water perfused cooling cap on the head changed the subjects' preference from hard to soft T-shirts, and from cold to warm piping. 5. 5. A physical model of the air-space between the subject's hand and the fabric was built. It showed that the temperature of the clothing surface increased to a greater extent with soft clothes than hard clothes under a rapid increase of humidity in the air-space.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)327-332
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Thermal Biology
Volume20
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1995

Keywords

  • behavioral temperature regulation
  • Clothing selection
  • cooling cap
  • set-point
  • soft or hard clothing

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