현대 스포츠웨어의 니트 활용에 관한 연구

Abstract

Demand for sportswear in daily life increases due to its merits such as activity and functionality. Athletic-leisure look, a combination of athletics and leisure, brings about expansion of use, lately. In the sportswear brand and outdoor brand, life style sportswear is released for common consumers for traveling and commuting conveniently to school and work. Knit fabric is more favored than woven fabric in fabric kind used for sportswear in consideration of activity and functionality. Knit consumption is under expansion along with sportswear market size more and more. In spite of this sportswear enlargement, study about knit use for sportswear seems very rare. This work is purposed to analyze the usage type and expression feature of knit based on the modern sportswear and develop the knitwear design. Results indicate as follows. Applied knit types of contemporary sportswear are drape knit, compact stretch knit, and permeable porous knit. Applied knit expression features of modern sportswear are convergence, sensuality, and dynamics. This examination would be useful in organizing and providing the necessary theory to understand the application of knit for modern sportswear.