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Sizing and fit for pressure 13

garments

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V.E. Kuzmichev , Zhe Cheng
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Ivanovo State Polytechnic University, Ivanovo, Russian Federation, Wuhan Textile
University, Wuhan, PR China

13.1 Introduction

Nowadays many compression garments having different styles, such as corsets,
girdles, pressure and shaping underwear, and so on, can be found on the market in
accordance with their different applications, customer demands, and effects provided.
Pressure garments are used for body shaping, recovery and protection in daily life,
medical uses, and sports applications. The fit is a key feature of these garments, with
special meanings that are totally different from other kinds of apparel. The main
features of well-fitting pressure garments as a second skin are: the ability to adapt
initial human body morphology to a new morphology in static and dynamic postures;
the ability of garments to provide the predicted effect; the positive perception of
customers in accordance with the length of time the garment is worn; correct construc-
tion; and the textile materials. All the features mentioned should be based on a deep
understanding and knowledge of three subjects: the soft tissue of the body, textile
materials, and garment construction.
According to Gaupta, the compression is the most important functional property of
a large group of medical and sports garments and shapewear (Gupta, 2016). Concen-
trated compression is used in Chinese traditional medicine to improve the functions of
many important human organs.
On one side, the general interest in having a beautiful and healthy, well-shaped
body is growing; therefore the demands for compression garments and their possibi-
lities for shaping or correcting the body morphology, moving fat, and helping to stay
fit are increasing day by day. For example, the ability of a corset to shape human
bodies to meet an aesthetic ideal has been known and used for thousands of years.
On the other side, the positive effect of applied compression helps to develop
textile and garment technologies and expands such garments in the fields of health
and sports applications. In medicine, pressure garments are mainly used in fat suction
postoperatively, but pressure therapy can also help to prevent bad scarring, to assist
venous return, to reduce peripheral swelling in vascular patients, and in other fields.
Some studies have demonstrated and proved the effectiveness of pressure garments in
sports (Rider et al., 2014; Hageman et al., 2018), although most of the published
research has failed to support any effects of garments for performance capacity in
a wide range of exercise tests (Kraemer et al., 2000; Scanlan et al., 2008; Sperlich
et al., 2010, 2014; Ali et al., 2011).
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