Effect of wearing characteristics on visual shielding property of woven fabrics

Having good visual shielding property is a basic requirement for conventional clothing, especially for those with light weight and color used in summer. To date, the focuses of many researches have been concentrated on examining fabric characteristics (such as fabric thickness, weight, structure and fiber type) on the visual shielding property or the development of opaque fiber and such kind of fabrics. Clothing, worn in single or multiple-layer arrangements, is subjected to conditions such as extension and wetting from perspiration or water in the surroundings (such as swimsuit). At the same time, fuzzing and pilling are also the common phenomena to fabric after worn. In this paper, transparency was chosen as the parameter to express the visual shielding property, effects of layers, wetness, fuzzing and pilling conditions and extension on the shielding property of fabrics with different colors were investigated in details. The transparency of the fabrics decreases with the increase of the layers and fuzzing and pilling conditions, but the influences of wetness and extension are adverse.