Evolution and social necessity aspects in functional clothing products

Abstract

The paper presents the functional clothing assortment study results by determining the current areas of its use. It is proposed the thorough study of the clothing product range for people with special needs. The main focus is on disabled people social inclusion which becomes possible thanks to adaptive clothing products. The paper is intended to theoretical knowledge grounding on functional clothing and its production rounds setting. The topicality of the subject is determined by the growing interest of specialists in the field and by the large number, worldwide and local, of people who represent a disability. The paper presents the fundamental notions regarding functional clothing, the modern assortment of functional clothing classification scheme and the scheme of the aimed at assortment design process. The functional clothing products development process stands for the clothes wearing conditions study in the interest of specific technical requirements processing, the dimensional typology data use, the "man-product" system ergonomic research carrying out, the original constructive solutions determining. One of the problems that are trying to be solved in this paper is finding solutions in order to increase the number of products types manufactured while increasing the functional clothing products quality for disabled people. The high-quality functional clothing products obtaining leads to a number increase of constructively made products and technologically manufactured homogeneous products. The design process scheme of clothing intended for disabled people is developed to facilitate the functional clothing products developing process.