My new book entitled “Discover the Relation between Fashion, Fabrics, Weather, and Comfort” is now for sale. This book on fashion, weather and comfort illustrates how the search for comfort drives clothes production, how weather affects comfort, and finally, how fashion affects comfort under the weather conditions of various climate regions. In this post, I provide a brief idea of the content and goals of the book.
- What Are the Goals of My Book?
- Subjects Covered in “Discover the Relation between Fashion, Fabrics, Weather, and Comfort”
- How Are These Goals Approached?
- This Book Swipes Out Myths and Old Fashion Rules
- Who Will Love this Book?
- Where Can you Buy “Discover the Relation between Fashion, Fabrics, Weather, and Comfort”?
What Are the Goals of My New Book?
This book combines my love for clothes, energetics, and weather. One of this book’s goals is to enable fashion lovers – you – in an entertaining way to create a wardrobe that works for the weather of their climate zone. Goosebumps and sunburns are never in style! Nobody looks their best when they feel thermal discomfort — whether it is due to cold or heat stress.
After reading this book, people can judge the thermo-physiological comfort of garments when reading the clothes tags (fabric material, blend ratio). Consequently, they can identify garments made from materials suitable for the weather of their climate region.
Creating such a climate-region weather-appropriate wardrobe reduces the amount of time they experience cold or heat stress. Fashion designer can create collections for the weather of specific climate regions.
Another goal is to inspire high school seniors and freshmen students to pursue a career in fashion or textile engineering. In this sense, it’s a great gift to your family members who still think about what to study or do after graduating from high school.
Subjects Covered in “Discover the Relation between Fashion, Fabrics, Weather, and Comfort”
The book reviews how our ancestors coped with the elements of weather in cold and hot climate regions to achieve thermal comfort and protect their skin from Sun, wind, rain, snow, humidity, cold, and heat. It introduces the fibers, felt, weaves, and knits commonly used in fashion. Insulation, sun-protection, breathability and wicking of fabrics are discussed for different fibers, weaves and knits. Furthermore, the role of color for sun-protection, sensation to the touch, and thermal comfort are presented.
The book explains how the various weather elements can cause thermo-physiological discomfort, health issues, and even death. After presenting the typical weather of Earth’s climate regions, I reveal what kind of clothes (fabric material(s), fabric structure, fit, clothing type, etc.), are best to wear in these regions.
Finally, I point out the needs for future developments for producing comfortable fashion, and research directions for the next generation of engineers in the clothing industry.
How Are these Goals Approached?
There are eight chapters that address the
- Role of clothing for humankind,
- Requirements and design of sun-safe fashion,
- Comfort of various fabrics,
- Layering garments for thermal insulation,
- Role of weather for thermal stress,
- Role of color of fashion,
- Dressing including layering for the weather of Earth’s climate regions, and
- Future of the fashion industry.
The physical reasons for cold and warm stress, and how fabric structure and material affect insulation, breathability, wicking and sun-protection are discussed in an easy-to-understand way for laypersons. Herein, color diagrams and figures as well as many easy-to-relate-to examples from everyday experiences serve to illustrate the relationships and concepts for everyone interested in fashion, and comfortable wear.
This Book Swipes Out Myths and Old Fashion Rules
The book swaps out myths like, for instance, “The coat warms.” From an energetic point of view, the statement is wrong. It would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Think about it! Your reaction will be, “Of course!”
If the coat could really warm something, it would warm the room, too, when it hangs on the coat rack. But, of course, the coat doesn’t do that! Any warming needs an energy source like the little batteries in your heating gloves or the electricity that powers your grandma’s heating blanket.
This means the coat only warms you when you burn it! Therefore, correct statements would be, “The coat keeps you warm” or “The coat provides good insulation.”
Who Will Love this Book?
This book is for everyone interested and/or engaged in the fields of textiles, fashion, fashion design, thermal comfort, and/or weather, especially meteorologists, bioclimatologists, engineers, technologists of the textile industry, apparel salespersons, fashion designers, high school students interested in the STEM field, fashionistas, fashionisters, and laypersons.
The book can also serve as a textbook for a 100-level science class for non-science majors, especially for fashion design and fashion majors, in community, technical, and fashion-design colleges, as well as universities.
Where Can you Buy “Discover the Relation between Fashion, Fabrics, Weather, and Comfort”?
The book is already available as eBook. To celebrate the launch, the eBook is on discount for $8 until December 23, 2023. Thereafter, the price will go up to $9. You can order the ebook online on Amazon.
The paperback will be available for $17.99 in a couple of weeks on Amazon as well and in stores at Barnes & Nobles, Target and other book retailers.
Probably the best $8 you can spend today is to grab an e-copy.
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