Water Resistance
Abstract
Research ReportedWater Resistance SAGE Publications, Inc.1942DOI: 10.1177/004051754201200407 Study Reveals Relation Between Fabric Construction and TREATMENT OF FABRICS to resist the penetration of water without destroying' the air porosity necessary for bodily comfort has grown to tremendous proportions during the last decade and particularly in the last three years. Today, water-resistant fabrics are used for active sports clothes; for ski jackets; for golfing, hunting, fishing and sailing outfits; raincoats; reversible topcoats; jackets; and children's snoxv suits. Use of water-resistant finishes has been specified by the Q.31.C, for added protection in ar my field jackets, ski troop parkas, parachute troop unif or ms, overcoat linings, and a host of other military needs. It is estimated that more than 20,000,000 yards of cotton fabrics are treated with water-resistant finishes each month for civilian and governmental purposes. Yet fabrics are still selected for resistant finishing with little or no knowledge of the relation between construction and water resistance. Serious and costly confusion has thus existed in the trade as a result of attempting to produce water-resistant finishes on cotton constructions which had neither been designed nor intended for such use. To provide first-hand data on the relation between cotton-fabric construction and water