Abstract
Abstract The article evaluates the amount of the consumed sewing thread for women's underwear (underwear bras and panties). Based on the obtained findings, it was concluded that sewing thread amount depends enormously on the studied influential parameters. The present paper reports a contribution that allows industries and researchers to decrease the consumed amounts of sewing thread in case of women's underwear and panties The study takes into account the different stitch structures and fabric characteristics that are usually used. The effects of influential input parameters, such as fabric thickness, number of assembled layers, stitch density, and tension of the thread, are investigated. Useful models have been found and can be used by industries to accuracy predict the thread consumption for women's underwear and panties to launch the needed thread commands. The developed models use multiregressive method. In this study, the fabrics that have been considered are knitted fabrics because they are those used in women's underwear. We found that women's underwear bras consume more sewing threads than panties. Using linear regression method, good relationships (coefficients of correlation close to 1) between consumption behaviors and the investigated parameters such as fabric thickness, number of assembled layers, stitch number per centimeter, sizes and tension of threads, were found. Although, the increase of threads tension to sew female underwear decreases the consumed amount of threads, the increase of other studied parameters widely encourages the consumption values, especially for seams based on chain-stitch types.
Highlights
Female underwear represents a great importance for the industry and the consumer
The underwear pattern manufacturing systems are not adapted to each body shape because, for each model, different results are acquired, which increases the complexity of the studied underwear patterns and fabrics [5]
All parameter contributions on the sewing thread consumptions are analyzed to explain the behavior of women sewed underwear bra and panty
Summary
Female underwear represents a great importance for the industry and the consumer. despite the fact that underwear is ostensibly hidden from view, a large number of women consumers spend a great amount of money on buying underwear or bras and panties [1, 2]. Lingerie fabrics are warp and weft knitted samples, which is why they remain delicate and require more attention because of their high extensibility, deformations, and high price of fabrics In spite of these difficulties during seam processes some researchers proposed the use strictly of the guidance of underwear’s patterns to be sewed and the different shapes of the undies suit most body types and there are different styles for women’s comfort [4]. This approach will be useful for the industries and the researchers
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