ABSTRACT
This paper reports a solution for creating women’s clothing with thermal camouflage functionality, adaptable to different outdoor, diurnal, and nocturnal environments. The study focuses on the colour behaviour analyse of thermal image in different textile materials, previously performed in a conditioned space – laboratory environment – by simulating the outdoor atmospheric temperatures, more specifically the natural environment and the skin of the human body, to be tested and compared in an outdoor environment afterwards. A climatic chamber and a thermal manikin were used in the laboratory, while a human female model and a thermal imaging camera were used in the outdoor tests. After the tests, it was found that the use of textile materials with different values of emissivity and the incorporation of structures allowing the manipulation of the air between the textile material and the human body are fundamental elements for creating an innovative clothing design process aimed at thermal camouflage.
