Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. Thisinterdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment andclothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothingachieves goals such as protecting the body, increasing health and safety, improving a worker'sefficiency on the job or increasing body function.Watkins and Dunne present technical material using clear, simple language that can be readilyunderstood by beginning design students with no science or engineering background. Buildingon the groundbreaking text by Watkins, Clothing: The Portable Environment, this text coversa full range of factors involved in designing functional clothing: protection from thermal,impact and other environmental hazards; enhancing movement and visibility and increasingbody function with smart clothing; designing clothing for people with handicaps and designingprotective clothing for groups such as the military, who face multiple hazards.Functional Clothing Design focuses on the full range of activities needed to developfunctional clothing from analysis of user needs to choosing appropriate materials to designand design evaluation. The text includes case studies throughout as well as new content onsmart textiles and all the latest developments in wearable technology.Designers and others seeking clothing solutions to problems in many fields will find acommon language linking a number of disciplines through which they can explore bothproblems and solutions.