Sports Wear Research Articles

Predicting Consumers’ Intentions to Purchase Eco-Friendly Products through Service Quality and Green Value Orientation

Organismic Integration Theory (OIT) was used in this research study, to examine the influence of environmental measures on consumer purchase intentions, towards’ purchasing ecofriendly athletic wear. To evaluate the associations between variables, a sample of 280 Indian consumers was employed. The research tool, Lisrel 8.80, was used to analyse the data, using the partial least square structural equation modelling (SEM) method. Results indicated that green purchasing behaviour was positively correlated with all the environmental factors considered in this study. Using the theory of OIT, this research is one of the first attempts to examine how environmentally motivating variables affect consumers’ inclinations towards environmentally responsible sporting apparel. This study used SEM to perform multiple regression in the sports wear marketing management.

Green synthesis of metal nanoparticles and study their anti-pathogenic properties against pathogens effect on plants and animals

According to an estimate, 30% to 40%, of global fruit are wasted, leading to post harvest losses and contributing to economic losses ranging from $10 to $100 billion worldwide. Among, all fruits the discarded portion of oranges is around 20%. A novel and value addition approach to utilize the orange peels is in nanoscience. In the present study, a synthesis approach was conducted to prepare the metallic nanoparticles (copper and silver); by utilizing food waste (Citrus plant peels) as bioactive reductants. In addition, the Citrus sinensis extracts showed the reducing activity against metallic salts copper chloride and silver nitrate to form Cu-NPs (copper nanoparticles) and Ag-NPs (Silver nanoparticles). The in vitro potential of both types of prepared nanoparticles was examined against plant pathogenic bacteria Erwinia carotovora (Pectobacterium carotovorum) and pathogens effect on human health Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Moreover, the in vivo antagonistic potential of both types of prepared nanoparticles was examined by their interaction with against plant (potato slices). Furthermore, additional antipathogenic (antiviral and antifungal) properties were also examined. The statistical analysis was done to explain the level of significance and antipathogenic effectiveness among synthesized Ag-NPs and Cu-NPs. The surface morphology, elemental description and size of particles were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy and zeta sizer (in addition polydispersity index and zeta potential). The justification for the preparation of particles was done by UV–Vis Spectroscopy (excitation peaks at 339 nm for copper and 415 nm for silver) and crystalline nature was observed by X-ray diffraction. Hence, the prepared particles are quite effective against soft rot pathogens in plants and can also be used effectively in some other multifunctional applications such as bioactive sport wear, surgical gowns, bioactive bandages and wrist or knee compression bandages, etc.

Analytical Study of Comfortability, Dyeability, and UPF of Sports Wear Interlock Fabrics

Analytical Study of Comfortability, Dyeability, and UPF of Sports Wear Interlock Fabrics

Innovative consumer behaviour towards sports wear

Innovative consumer behaviour towards sports wear

The Effect of Sensory Marketing on the Purchase Behavior of Sports Wear Products

Intense competition conditions push businesses and brands to differentiate. One of the ways brands differentiate themselves from their competitors is to carry out interesting marketing activities for consumers. In this sense, sense-oriented marketing strategies can be used to activate the purchasing behavior of consumers. This research aims to reveal how consumers are affected by sensory marketing elements when purchasing sports ready-to-wear products and their differences according to demographic characteristics. Tekin (2021) used the scale of “the effect of sensory marketing on the buying behavior of ready-made clothing”, which he used in his graduate study. The sample group consists of 241 female and 259 male participants who volunteered and visited the sports shops of 6 shopping centers in Istanbul. In the analysis of the data, Multiple Frequency, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis analyzes were applied.It is seen that men, participants with university education, 34-41 age group and 2501-4000 TL monthly income spend more in the consumption of sports textile products. The participants stated that they purchase 10% or less of their monthly budget for sports products, they mostly buy from the physical store, they prefer classical music in the store, they show more demand for light colored products, and the majority prefer the Adidas brand. The effect of visual, olfactory and tactile stimuli in the store atmosphere on the consumption of sports textile products, on gender and education; visuality of brand and store design on gender, education and monthly income; It has been determined that olfactory and auditory stimuli show significant differences according to education and monthly income. It is seen that the effect of product visualization and the effect of olfactory, auditory and tactile stimuli do not change according to any personal characteristics.

Comparative Analysis on Thermo-physiological Behavior of Eri Silk, Wool and Bamboo Knitted Fabrics Toward Sportswear

ABSTRACT Layered fabrics are utilized for the development of active sport wear applications due to their thermo-physiological properties. In this study, nine different types of knitted fabrics were developed using mill spun yarns of Eri silk, Wool (worsted), and Bamboo with three different knit structures such as single jersey, single pique, and honeycomb. The thermo-physiological properties such as thermal conductivity, thermal resistance, thermal absorptivity, air permeability, and water vapor permeability were studied. Further to this, the moisture management properties such as wetting time, absorption rate, spreading speed, and maximum wet radius of the knitted fabrics were measured. Finally, the overall thermal comfort fabric was compared both subjective and objective manner and found that Eri silk based knitted honeycomb structure was highest rated than other samples.

Electrospun double layer nanofibers mats with superior elasticity and unidirectional water transportation

Biomimetic asymmetric wettability has recently attracted increasing attention, which can be utilized to offer a means for guiding water motion. Herein, we report super-elasticity double layer nanofibers mats with unidirectional water transportation ability. In nanofibers mats, polyurethane nanofibers as hydrophobic layer and crosslinked poly (L-lactic acid) nanofibers as hydrophilic layer are combined, and its elastic elongation reaches 336.22 ± 20.50%. Moreover, the water contact angles (CAs) exceed 128° in hydrophobic side, on the contrary, the water CAs below 45° in hydrophilic side. Water can permeate from hydrophobic side to hydrophilic side, but is retained in the opposite direction. These super-elastic nanofibers mats achieve highly efficient unidirectional water transportation based on hydrophilic-hydrophobic structures. It is believed to have the potential to be used in many practical applications, such as sports wear, smart clothing etc.

Attr2Style: A Transfer Learning Approach for Inferring Fashion Styles via Apparel Attributes

Popular fashion e-commerce platforms mostly provide details about low-level attributes of an apparel (for example, neck type, dress length, collar type, print etc) on their product detail pages. However, customers usually prefer to buy apparel based on their style information, or simply put, occasion (for example, party wear, sports wear, casual wear etc). Application of a supervised image-captioning model to generate style-based image captions is limited because obtaining ground-truth annotations in the form of style-based captions is difficult. This is because annotating style-based captions requires a certain amount of fashion domain expertise, and also adds to the costs and manual effort. On the contrary, low-level attribute based annotations are much more easily available. To address this issue, we propose a transfer-learning based image captioning model that is trained on a source dataset with sufficient attribute-based ground-truth captions, and used to predict style-based captions on a target dataset. The target dataset has only a limited amount of images with style-based ground-truth captions. The main motivation of our approach comes from the fact that most often there are correlations among the low-level attributes and the higher-level styles for an apparel. We leverage this fact and train our model in an encoder-decoder based framework using attention mechanism. In particular, the encoder of the model is first trained on the source dataset to obtain latent representations capturing the low-level attributes. The trained model is fine-tuned to generate style-based captions for the target dataset. To highlight the effectiveness of our method, we qualitatively and quantitatively demonstrate that the captions generated by our approach are close to the actual style information for the evaluated apparel. A Proof Of Concept (POC) for our model is under pilot at Myntra (www.myntra.com) where it is exposed to some internal users for feedback.

Correlation Analysis of Marine Leisure Sports Wear -Focused on Body Shape, Age and Variable

Correlation Analysis of Marine Leisure Sports Wear -Focused on Body Shape, Age and Variable

Investigation on Mechanical and Comfort Properties of Denim Woven Fabrics Made from Different Spandex Percentage for Sports Wear

Investigation on Mechanical and Comfort Properties of Denim Woven Fabrics Made from Different Spandex Percentage for Sports Wear

Innovative consumer behaviour towards sports wear

Innovative consumer behaviour towards sports wear

Evaluation of the Moisture and Thermal Characteristics of Knitted Sport Wear Fabrics (Dept.T)

The main aim of this work was study the effect of fiber composition on the moisture and thermal properties for sport wear knitted fabrics. We also studied the effect of using single and double layer fabric on the moisture and thermal properties of these fabrics. To know how heat and water are transported through each fabric, measurements of their physical properties (thermal resistance, thermal conductivity, thermal absorptivity, heat flow, relative water vapor permeability and air permeability) were made in laboratories. The effects of fiber composition and the clothing assembly (one or two layers) have a highly significant effect on both moisture and thermal properties of sport wear knitted fabrics and also there were a high correlation between fabric thickness, fabric porosity, fabric air permeability, the relative water vapor permeability and fabric thermal properties

Performance analysis of spandex incorporated single jersey fabrics for sportswear

Objectives: The main objective of this study is to substantiate the effects of spandex on the properties of plain jersey fabric as compared to the commercial knit sports wear. Method: Three single jersey plain knitted fabric samples were produced with full feeder spandex (4.45%), half feeder spandex (2.22%), and without spandex. 34/1 Ne cotton yarn and 20D spandex were used. Standard test methods were followed to analyze the fabric properties. ASTM D 3774: 2004, ISO 6330:2012, ISO 12945-2, ISO 12947-1:1998 and ISO 13938- 1:1999 methods were used to measure the variation between cotton and cotton/spandex plain jersey fabric, different physical properties in particular GSM, width, abrasion resistance, pilling, bursting strength, and shrinkage of the specimens. Findings: The physical, dimensional, and mechanical properties of cotton/spandex plain jersey knitted fabrics were investigated. The results were compared between knitted fabrics made from 100% cotton and spandex with cotton. The effect of spandex percentage was also studied. A significant effect was observed on the physical, dimensional, and mechanical behaviors of single jersey fabric. Results revealed that the GSM, shrinkage, abrasion resistance, and bursting strength increased and the width reduced with the increased amount of spandex percentage. No apparent effect on the pilling resistance was observed. Applications: The manufactured spandex incorporated knitted fabrics can be found in a wide range of applications. The main endeavor is to use for active sportswear. Keywords: Bursting strength; cotton yarn; pilling resistance; spandex; single jersey; sportswear

Effect of Some Construction Factors of Bi-layer Knitted Fabrics Produced for Sports Wear on Resisting Ultraviolet Radiation

Ultraviolet rays represent a very low fraction of the solar spectrum which damages all living organisms and their metabolisms. Such radiations can cause a variety of symptoms, from basic tanning to extremely malignant skin cancers, fabrics with correct design specification, absorbers, and finishing methods, can play a very important role as a shielding system against the deterious effects of Ultraviolet rays. This study will stress on bi-layer knitted fabrics because knitted goods of all kinds are widely popular due to their flexibility ability to adjust, stretch when worn to a specific shape and their general comfortable wear. Knitted fabrics are widely used in Sportswear, summer clothes, under wears and Childs' clothes due to their excellent stretch and recovery, porosity, air permeability. Also knitted fabrics especially weft knitted fabrics are easier to be produced, and less cost compared to woven fabrics. Because of this fact, most previous research concerns woven structures that are typically less porous and offer higher protection against UV. The possibility of obtaining knitted fabrics with sufficient UV protection factor is of great interest, however, as knitted fabrics are more suitable for both sports and casual summer fashion garments. Current literature on the UV protection factor of knitted fabrics is very small and mostly concerns fabrics developed in machines with relatively large gauges This study is trying to find a solution for this problem by studying the Influence of weft knitted fabrics Construction with its' different parameters for Protection against Ultraviolet Radiation in sportswear applications.

스포츠의류 선호브랜드의 자아이미지 일치성과 브랜드신뢰, 브랜드팬쉽 및 브랜드충성도의 관계

스포츠의류 선호브랜드의 자아이미지 일치성과 브랜드신뢰, 브랜드팬쉽 및 브랜드충성도의 관계

아두이노를 활용한 방향지시 라이딩웨어 개발에 관한 연구

This research to provide comfortable apparel for bike riding that incorporates safety. Specifically, the information and communications technology (ICT) device, arduino, is applied to the clothing design process. Riders’ moving direction is considered to maximize their visibility and thus their safety. With this focus, a proper jumper and vest are developed. As the first part of our research method, a demand survey was performed. Based on its result, the actual clothes were made. The concept of this kind of clothing is basically urban sports wear. Clothes are designed for bike riding women in their 20s; and they will also work as designs for their daily lives during the spring and fall seasons. Three-layered Gore Tex was selected as the main fabric. Colors such as pistachio green, reflex blue, deept mahogany, and crimson were chosen. For the direction indicating device, an arduino device was adopted. LED lighting indicators were applied to both the jumper and the vest at key areas, including the front, right side, and left side, as well between the lower part of scapula and the waist line.

스포츠 웨어용 흡한속건 및 투습방수 소재의 의류외관 특성과 형성성능

스포츠 웨어용 흡한속건 및 투습방수 소재의 의류외관 특성과 형성성능

스포츠웨어의 선택속성에 따른 의복추구혜택, 소비가치 및 제품 동일시와의 관계

스포츠웨어의 선택속성에 따른 의복추구혜택, 소비가치 및 제품 동일시와의 관계

Comfort Properties of Textiles: A Review of Some Breakthroughs in Recent Research

The article critically reviews the recent research trends related to comfort characteristics of fabrics. The comfort properties of fabrics are of sensorial and non sensorial nature. Many researches have focussed on these aspects. Comparative studies on cotton and cotton/polyester blend fabrics woven in various designs have shown that cotton fabrics exhibit better comfort properties than their blend counterpart. Active sports wear is one area where comfort is crucial. In this regard the comfort properties of different bi layered knitted structures made from outer layer comprising of tencel yarn and inner layer of acrylic/microfiber polyester. Such an investigation is intended to largely help the researchers who are analysing the comfort characteristics of layered knitted fabrics for sports wear. Utilization of recycled polyester in the knit apparel industry is ever increasing but the characterization of knit apparel made from recycled polyester yarns is limited to mechanical and moisture management properties.

Mechanical Evaluation of Knee Varus-Valgus Torque Produced by Sports Wear

Mechanical Evaluation of Knee Varus-Valgus Torque Produced by Sports Wear