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Comfortable pressure feeling and clothing pressure on abdomen

Tamaki Mitsuno (Faculty of Education, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan)
Ayaka Kai Yanagisawa (Faculty of Education, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan)

International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology

ISSN: 0955-6222

Article publication date: 11 January 2022

Issue publication date: 1 March 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

The present study obtained the topography of perceptible (a perfect-fit feeling) clothing pressures from the chest to groin, when a stretching material provided hoop tension to the body surface of participants. Furthermore, the allowable pressure level was examined for the abdomen, which is pressed by underclothes on a daily basis.

Design/methodology/approach

Participants were nine women aged 21.3 ± 1.2 years. Each participant's perception of pressure while wearing the experimental band was obtained in a questionnaire using a visual analog scale. Clothing pressure was measured employing a hydrostatic pressure-balancing method as participants adjusted the band length themselves to achieve two conditions: a perfect-fit and tight-fit on the abdomen.

Findings

The range of comfortable clothing pressure tightening provided by a 2.5 cm-wide elastic band on the abdomen was 0–5.6 hPa for under the bust, waist and groin, and 4.4–9.3 hPa for the chest, lower waist and hips. A nerve plexus of the autonomic nervous system and arteries are distributed over the body surface of the former body parts, which were thus sensitive to tightening around the abdomen.

Originality/value

The topography of perceptible clothing pressure was obtained when stretching material provided hoop tension to the body surface of the participant. The results of a participant questionnaire agreed with clothing pressure obtained using a hydrostatic pressure-balancing method that has a short-time constant and sensitive resolution. Furthermore, allowable pressure levels were proposed.

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Acknowledgements

A contribution degree of the two authors to complete this article is shown as follows.

T. Mistuno planned this experiment and experimented and made a statistical analysis and wrote an article.

A. Yanagisawa was a student of former Shinshu University. She experimented on this article and made a statistical analysis for a part of the result.

Citation

Mitsuno, T. and Yanagisawa, A.K. (2022), "Comfortable pressure feeling and clothing pressure on abdomen", International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 110-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCST-12-2017-0194

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