Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Spacesuits

by Susan Watkins and Lucy Dunne

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 or increasing body function. Watkins and Dunne present technical material using clear,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857854674
• ISBN13: 9780857854674
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 10.2"