Abstract

This study suggests quantitative guidelines for inside clothing temperatures to improve the heat tolerance of 20`s females in summer. First, the inside clothing temperatures () of each subject was measured in daily use. The subjects were asked to record subjective thermal sensations, clothing items worn, clothing weight, and activities during an experiment designed to determine the comfort zone of . In a thermally neutral state, the comfort zone of was decided on a mean value . Second, the subjects were asked to wear clothing that would enable them to feel `slightly warm but still comfortable`. The rest of the processes were the same as previous steps that were designed to understand the way and degree of clothing control. The comfort zone of was decided in the same manner as the previous step. The two comfort zones were combined and named the combined comfort zone of the definitive comfort zone. The results were as follows: 1. Thermally comfortable , Hcl were , and the thermally comfortable ambient climate was , . 2. When subjects were asked to wear `slightly warm but still comfortable`, there were difference in thermally comfortable , clothing weight and clothing layer by subject. 3. In this study, the optimal was decided on the mid-point of the definitive comfort zone of .

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