ABSTRACT
This paper explores the results obtained in the first phase of a PhD research on psychological comfort of clothing. At this initial stage, a variation of the Delphi Method was used to reach for the opinion from the experts about the concept of psychological comfort and which factors would interfere in its perception. The results converge to suggest that aspects related to aesthetics are one of the most important attributes to be considered in the process of assessing the psychological dimension of clothing comfort. Therefore, the present article supports the hypothesis raised by the literary revision, which argues, that the aesthetic dimension has great relevance for the comfort of clothing. It also corroborates that investigations in the psychological comfort of clothing can benefit from considering the importance of aesthetics in the interaction between person-clothing-environment, both in terms of appearance (vision) and in the pleasure promoted by clothing and perceived by the totality of the senses.
